The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess: The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe

by Jonathan Green and Jonathan Green

Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century. While the author "Wilhelm Friess" was a convenient fiction, his text had a long and remarkable history as it moved from the papal court in fourteenth-century Avignon, to Antwerp under Habsburg oppression, to Nuremberg as it was still reeling from Lutheran failures in the Schmalkaldic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472119214
• ISBN13: 9780472119219
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"