Martin Luther and the arts : music, images, and drama to promote the Reformation
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Martin Luther and the arts : music, images, and drama to promote the Reformation
（Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, v. 236）
Brill, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-269) and index
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Description
Martin Luther was the architect and engineer of the Protestant Reformation, which transformed Germany five hundred years ago. In Martin Luther and the Arts, Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth elucidate Luther's theory and practice, demonstrating the breadth, flexibility and rigour of Luther's use of the arts to reach audiences and convince them of his Reformation message using a range of strategies, including music, images and drama alongside sermons, polemical tracts, and his new translation of the Bible into German.
Extensively based on German and English sources, including often neglected aspects of Luther's own writings, Loewe and Firth offer a valuable survey for theologians, historians, art historians, musicologists and literary studies scholars interested in interdisciplinary comparisons of Luther's work across the arts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Structure and Scope of This Book
1 Luther's Theory of Music
1 Music among the Seven Liberal Arts
2 Sources for Luther's Theory of Music
3 Luther's Theory of Music
4 The Origins of Music
5 Music as a 'Habitus' and Model of Goodness and Praise
2 Hymns and Sacred Songs
1 Singing, Preaching, and Praising God through Music
2 Lutherans, Music, and the Reformation
3 Lutheran Music in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
4 Lutheran 'Kantoreien' as Instruments of Reform
3 Martin Luther's 'Mighty Fortress'
1 Genesis and Dissemination
2 Reception from 1600 to 1945
3 A Hymn of Confidence in God's Eternal Salvation
4 Martin Luther on Images
1 Radical Reforms in Wittenberg
2 Luther's Understanding of Images
3 Reading 'Law and Grace': A Composite 'Merkbild' (Image of Remembrance)
5 Teaching the Reformation to Read Images of Hate
1 Luther's Adversarial Images
2 Later Reception of Luther's Anti-Semitic Polemic
6 Luther and Drama
1 Martin Luther and Popular Pre-Reformation Drama
2 Luther's Objections to Popular Drama and Ceremonies
3 Lutheran Biblical Drama
4 Joachim Greff and Popular Drama
5 Dramatising the Bible
6 Towards a Protestant Dramatisation of the Passion
7 Performing the Passion and Resurrection
8 In Defence of Passion Drama
9 A Matter of Church Polity
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Luther's Prefaces to the 'Symphoniae Iucundae'
Appendix 2: Comparing 'Law and Grace' (1529-1550)
Bibliography
Index
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