This volume provides the most comprehensive documentation of German controversies about pictorial images in the 16th century. It includes texts by 47 authors from different religious denominations along with commentary, an afterword, and detailed name and subject indexes. The two-volume work provides insight into this original debate on media in the German-speaking world, furnishing an unprecedented level of detail and information.

Autorentext

Jörg Jochen Berns, Marburg.

Zusammenfassung

"Jörg Jochen Berns nimmt uns [...] an die Hand und lehrt zugleich, wie man methodisch arbeiten muss und wie Quellenmaterialien sinnvoll aufzubereiten sind. Großer Dank an einen bewundernswerten Kollegen."
Wolfgang Brückner in: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2015

"Eine wichtige Sammlung [...]"
Markus Wriedt in: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte Jahrgang 45 (2016)

"[...] Berns's significant collection provides researchers with a rich resource, informed by the trans- and multidisciplinary research that has recently shaped the field."
Philipp Reisner in: Sixteenth Century Journal 49.4 (2017), 1147-1149