Images - Part IV: Section A – Confessional Era

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1.	Anti-Calvinist Broadsheet (c. 1600) This anti-Calvinist broadsheet dates from the dispute between the Calvinists in Lower Hesse and the Lutherans in Upper Hesse over the real presence of Christ during Communion. The image shows the....
2.	Anti-Jesuit Broadsheet (2nd Half of the 16th Century) This broadsheet explores a common theme in anti-Jesuit polemics. It depicts a Jesuit who has disguised himself as a devil in order to convert a Protestant maid. His attempt fails, however, and he....
3.	Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (1597) Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (1545-1617) was elected prince-bishop of Würzburg in 1573 at the age twenty-eight. He is considered the first entirely successful Counterreformation bishop in the Holy....
4.	Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Archbishop of Salzburg (1597) Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1559-1617), who was related to the famous Medici family of Florence and to Archbishop Carlo Borromeo of Milan, attended the Collegium Germanicum in Rome. In 1587, he was....
5.	Model of a Catholic Diocese This diagram shows the organization of a Catholic diocese from bishop to parish.
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