Jeremias Drexel's 'Christian Zodiac'
Seventeenth-Century Publishing Sensation. A Critical Edition, Translated and with an Introduction & Notes
First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel's 'Zodiacus christianus' (or 'Christian Zodiac') was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. Raised a Lutheran but converting to Catholicism in his youth, Drexel (1581-1638) was well placed to publish a book that appealed to Protestants as well as Catholics, his 'Zodiac' appearing in multiple reprints, re-editions and translations across Europe during his lifetime and posthumously across the rest of the seventeenth century in an astonishing arc of popularity. The orbit of his readers' catchment was geographically - and denominationally - wide to a conspicuous degree. Drexel…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-11122-1
- EAN: 9781317111221
- Produktnummer: 20175642
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 162 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'261 KB
Über den Autor
Nicholas J. Crowe M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge) teaches at the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies in Oxford. For twenty years he has taught and researched a wide range of literary and philosophical topics at Oxford, exploring the intellectual history and culture of Britain and Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
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