Early Modern German Literature 2: Judith plays

An episode of the Reformation 2017 podcast, hosted by Oxford University, titled "Early Modern German Literature 2: Judith plays" was published on March 4, 2016 and runs 39 minutes.

March 4, 2016 ·39m · Reformation 2017

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Henrike Lähnemann on the popularity of the Judith theme in Reformation drama Part of the Reformation lecture series for Paper VII: Martin Luther's judgement of the apocrypha and his influence on the development of early modern drama in Germany; the Judith play by Joachim Greff and those by Sixt Birck and Hans Sachs

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Henrike Lähnemann on the popularity of the Judith theme in Reformation drama Part of the Reformation lecture series for Paper VII: Martin Luther's judgement of the apocrypha and his influence on the development of early modern drama in Germany; the Judith play by Joachim Greff and those by Sixt Birck and Hans Sachs

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