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1523 was a crucial year for the German Reformation. This volume presents two-lesser known short pamphlets which illustrate the local as well as global role of printing in the development. The first is the entertaining 'Deutung der greulichen Figur des Mönchkalbs' (Interpretation of the gruesome figure of the monk-calf), a polemical interpretation of the monstrous birth of calf with a cowl-like neck in Saxony, which entered into circulation acr...

Lailashi, a remote village at the footstool of the Caucasian mountains holds one of the most tantalising and valuable discoveries in biblical scholarship and Jewish history. It is the home of the Lailashi Codex, an ancient Masoretic manuscript, which belongs to the exclusive group of the Hebrew biblical manuscripts known as Vavei Ha'Amudim (words beginning with the letter vav should be the first words on each leaf of the manuscript except for ...

In Times of Strife' explores the pursuit of humanitarian objectives in the face of perilous conditions of war, exile and extreme social dislocation from 1600 to 1945. Each section reconstructs the endeavours of a pair of associated intellectuals or artists within a multi-cultural European setting. This brings together the different research areas of Charles Webster, formerly of Corpus Christi College, currently an Emeritus Senior Research Fell...

medievalism, n. 'the reception, interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages in post-medieval cultures' Louise D'Arcens, 2016 A fascination with the Middle Ages shaped public life in the nineteenth century - and in exchange, it reshaped the Middle Ages into a form still dominant today. Englishness became inextricably connected with a reimagined medieval past expressed through art, architecture, and literature. English traits an...

The 'samizdat' ('self-publication') sphere that flourished between c.1980-1990 in former East Germany produced an extraordinary flowering of hundreds of tiny magazines and graphic/poetry journals that evaded the strict censorship of the state. The artists, musicians and writers who produced them lived mostly illegally in the rundown housing stock of the major East German cities (especially Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin) and created a Bohemian encl...

Martin Luther's Open Letter on Translation and the Intercession of Saints (1530) is a seminal work in German literature, translation studies, and Reformation theology. It has influenced authors and translators such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, and Franz Rosenzweig. For the 500th anniversary of Luther's translation of the New Testament, this expanded second edition provides a complete f...

Martin Luther wrote the Open Letter on Translation in September 1530 at the fortress of Coburg in Saxony where he was being kept for his own protection. It was a crucial moment in the Reformation: his colleagues were at the Imperial Diet at Augsburg, making a formal proclamation of Protestantism before the Emperor. Luther used the Open Letter to defend his translation of the Bible, and the work has become a seminal document in German literatur...

The Passional Christi und Antichristi (Passional of Christ and Antichrist), published in May 1521 in Wittenberg, has been described by Robert Scribner "as the most successful work of visual propaganda produced by the Reformation". It contains thirteen sets of woodcuts, produced by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), contrasting the life of Christ with that of the Antichrist, interpreted as the pope. Underneath each image are bible quotations,...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was the author of the famous Divine Comedy. Less well known today, however, are Dante's lyric poems and treatises. His lyric production comprised more than 120 poems in diverse forms (canzoni and sestine, sonnets, and ballads, written between around 1283 and 1315). He gathered 31 of his poems in his Vita Nuova (The New Life, early 1290s) and then commented on three of his canzoni in the unfinished Convivio (The Banq...

Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen (On the Freedom of a Christian), published in November 1520 in German and soon afterwards in Latin, was the European bestseller of the 16th century. It is a bold statement of Martin Luther's Reformation theology in which he passionately argues for the primacy of faith. The work is built around the striking statement that Christians are both free and bound - free through God's grace and bound to their fel...

This book combines German and Japanese texts by Yoko Tawada with new English translations and a documentation of her time as Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford, including an exhibition of multilingual writing at the Taylor Institution Library in 2017.

The Sermon von Ablass und Gnade (Sermon on Indulgences and Grace) is a seminal text for the Reformation: it is the first vernacular statement of Luther's views on the question which led to his break with Rome, the first printed work of his to reach a mass audience, and the first example of the direct, arresting style which became the hallmark of his German writings. The work hit the market 500 years ago, in the second half of March 1518, five ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets have captured the imagination of German poetry translators for centuries, each of them interpreting them anew. None of these poems have been accessible in English until now. Ulrike Draesner's "radical translation", 'Twin Spin', entwines the languages of poetic reproduction and cloning. Tom Cheesman's back-translation, 'Thymine', back-translates her work into English, completing a cycle of re-interpretation. Ulrike Dra...