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Media Turns in German-Language Pamphlets in Northern and North-Western Bohemia during the 1520s

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

The study strives to introduce the region of Northern and North-Western Bohemia as one of the centres of Reformation literature where several of the so-called printing natives were active during the third decade of the 16th century. These people were exploring the possibilities of a relatively new media in their pamphlets and developing various literary strategies.

Yet because they attributed different functions to their treatises, they also employed different approaches. Moreover, the form of the published texts and the ability to use various approaches highly depended on the extent to which Wittenberg was involved in the process of their creation.