AFV8903

Title

Subject

Description

This late sixteenth-century anti-Protestant broadside includes a large hand-colored woodcut depicting the Catholic Church under attack by seven historical figures and one allegorical representative of the Reformation.

Source

AFV8903. Spiegel der streitbarn, wahren, beständigen uralten Catholischen Kirchen Gottes, darwider sich vil Tyrannen, Haiden, Juden und Ketzer mit stürmen reissen, brennen, und brechen, auffgeleint, welche Kirch aber, biss auff heutigen Tag vor allem ungewitter beständig erhalten, und biss zum End der Welt vermittels Göttlicher gnad erhalten werden solle.
Probably Germany, ca. 1570.

Relation

CounterReformation

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

German

Type

Broadside

Collection

Martin Luther in the Age of Print

Citation

“AFV8903,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed April 20, 2024, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/973.