Peasants, Warriors, and Wives

by Keith Moxey

• ISBN13: 9780226543925
• ISBN10: 0226543927
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

InPeasants, Warriors, and Wives, Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the German Reformation that have often been ignored as a crude and inferior form of artistic production. In this richly illustrated study, Moxey argues that while they may not satisfy received notions of "art," they nevertheless constitute an important dimension of the visual culture of the period. Far from being manifestations of universal public opinion, as a cursory acquaintance with their subject matter might suggest, such prints were the means by which the reformed attitudes of the middle and upper classes were disseminated to a broad popular audience.

Author Biography

Keith Moxey is the Anne Whitney Olin Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
Nuremberg in the Sixteenth Century	11	(8)
The Media: Woodcuts and Broadsheets	19	(16)
Festive Peasants and Social Order	35	(32)
Mercenary Warriors and the ``Rod of God''	67	(34)
The Battle of the Sexes and the World Upside Down	101	(26)
Conclusion	127	(6)
Notes	133	(28)
Index	161