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The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess: The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe
Jonathan GreenDutch scholars have recognized that Frans Fraet was executed for printing a prognostication by Willem de Vriese, but this prognostication was thought to be lost. A few scholars of sixteenth-century German apocalypticism have briefly noted the prophecies of Wilhelm Friess but have not studied them in depth. The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess is the first to connect de Vriese and Friess, as well as recognize the prophecy of Wilhelm Friess as an adaptation of a French version of theVademecum of Johannes de Rupescissa, making these pamphlets by far the most widespread source for Rupescissa's apocalyptic thought in Reformation Germany. The book explains the connection between the first and second prophecies of Wilhelm Friess and discovers the Calvinist context of the second prophecy and its connection to Johann Fischart, one of the most important German writers of the time.
Jonathan Green provides a study of how textual history interacts with print history in early modern pamphlets and proposes a model of how early modern prophecies were created and transmitted. The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess makes important contributions to the study of early modern German and Dutch literature, apocalypticism and confessionalization during the Reformation, and the history of printing in the sixteenth century.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Preface
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Contents
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ABBREVIATIONS
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 A Strange Prognostication
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Chapter 2 A Seditious Prophecy
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The Strange Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess
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Chapter 3 From Avignon to Antwerp and from Antwerp to Nuremberg
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From Avignon to Antwerp: Johannes de Rupescissa and “Wilhelm Friess”
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Why Frans Fraet Had to Die
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From Antwerp to Nuremberg
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Chapter 4 From Protest to Propaganda
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The Tangled History of N
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“Wilhelm Friess” in Nuremberg
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The Restless Ghost of “Wilhelm Friess”
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“Wilhelm Friess” in Antwerp and Lübeck, 1566–68
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Chapter 5 A Horrible and Shocking Prophecy
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The Appalling Accuracy of “Wilhelm Friess”
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The Horrible and Shocking Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess
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The Textual History of Wilhelm Friess’s Second Prophecy
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1639: The Earliest and Latest Wilhelm Freiss
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The Second Generation
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Samuel Apiarius
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The Stars over Strasbourg
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Chapter 6 Wilhelm Friess in Strasbourg
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The Home of Wilhelm Friess’s Second Prophecy: Sources and Templates
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Strasbourg and Sacraments: The Religious Home of “Friess II”
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The Geopolitics of “Friess II”
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Johann Fischart, Author of the Second Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess?
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Chapter 7 The Last Emperor and the Beginning of Prophecy
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“Friess I” versus “Friess II”
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The Long Afterlife of “Wilhelm Friess”
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The Textuality of Prophecy
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Appendixes
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Appendix 1 The First Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess
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Appendix 2 The Second Prophecy of Wilhelm Friess
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Appendix 3 Editions Attributed to Wilhelm Friess
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
- 978-0-472-11921-9 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12007-9 (ebook)