Fancy a story of a wonderfish with 2 human legs, a sword, 2 pikes, and a godly warning on the fish skin? Welcome to #earlymodern Europe's world of publishing: this fish story hit the news in 1616, just 2 years before the #ThirtyYearsWar broke out, and used an unusual warning code: WEWEWEDENME - in German: Wehe, Wehe, Wehe den Menschen. Let's start a thread. #histodons#bookhistory#mediahistory#history
Two pairs of eye glasses talking to each other about the #ThirtyYearsWar on a #broadside published in Germany in 1621/22.
The giant pair of glasses is easy to spot in the image part of the print, and represents the city of #Prague and the Catholic party of the contemporary conflict. The giant pair of glasses is used as a visual guide to look into Prague, its fate in 1621, and the then victorious Catholics.
And what about the small pair of glasses? Follow this thread, #histodons. #history
Banging the big #drum in 1631! This is a Protestant mocking and warning of Catholic #propaganda and military recruitment during the #ThirtyYearsWar.
This #broadside shows, among other details, a very big drum that is played by Monks and Jesuits (on the left). On the right is the #Devil in a military uniform - and other clerics with the ready war chest.
#MediaHistory knows: the conflicts between 1618-48 filled the newspapers of the time, and inspired lots of media battles. #Histodons
If you enjoy calming images of a #rainbow on social media, be aware that you haven't seen yet such a rainbow thing with two extra suns. In 1645, in the last years of of the later called #ThirtyYearsWar, these rainbows and three suns were maybe seen near #Nuremberg, and interpreted as a godly sign for peace and a reminder to behave better. #histodons
@CStamp@victoriadecapua
...did not develop to enshrine these concepts, as they were the result of historical struggles.
What is more, until the invention of the nation-state, arguable as conceived in the #TreatyOfWestphalia of 1648 (ending the #ThirtyYearsWar in #Europe), but not too prominent until the 19th century, it was common practice to redistribute fiefdoms through marriages and the like according to... @ricardoharvin@MelodyCooper@BlackAzizAnansi
Selling the news was always a business that needed distribution strategies. Here, you see a mobile seller of early modern printed news. Let's focus on the details of this image, a woodcut print of 1631 covering a small pamphlet published in German speaking Europe during the middle of the #ThirtyYearsWar, in a thread for #bookhistory and #newshistory experts, and of course all #histodons in general.
Two pairs of eye glasses talking to each other about the #ThirtyYearsWar on a #broadside published in Germany in 1621/22.
The giant pair of glasses is easy to spot in the image part of the print, and represents the city of #Prague and the Catholic party of the contemporary conflict. The giant pair of glasses is used as a visual guide to look into Prague, its fate in 1621, and the then victorious Catholics.
And what about the small pair of glasses? Follow this thread