Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation Crowther Kathleen M.
Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation Crowther Kathleen M. The story of Adam and Eve, ubiquitous in the art and literature of the period, played a central role in the religious controversies of…
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Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation Crowther Kathleen M.
The story of Adam and Eve, ubiquitous in the art and literature of the period, played a central role in the religious controversies of sixteenth-century Europe. Kathleen M. This is the first book to explore the variety and circulation of stories about Adam and Eve in German Lutheran areas and to analyze their place in the construction of Lutheran culture and identity.
Her research identifies how Lutheran storytellers differentiated their unique versions of the story from those of their medieval predecessors and their Catholic and Calvinist contemporaries. Crowther examines Lutheran versions of the story of Adam and Eve in a variety of sources, including bibles, commentaries, devotional tracts, sermons, plays, poems, medical and natural history texts, and woodcut images. She also explores the appeal of the story of Adam and Eve to Lutherans as a means to define, defend, and disseminate