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- Title
Common Medicine for the Common Man: Picturing the "Striped Layman" in Early Vernacular Print.
- Authors
Taape, Tillmann
- Abstract
The disruptive figure of the "striped layman" appeared in printed texts and images around the year 1500 in the southern German lands. This essay shows how it came to represent a new kind of reader of vernacular medical publications. Exploring the illustrated books of the Strasbourg surgeon-apothecary Hieronymus Brunschwig, their local context of humanist discourse, and the visual practice of their publisher, Johann Grüninger, I argue that their oft-neglected woodcuts of people in striped clothes constitute powerful visual commentary of Brunschwig's (and others') mission to impart medical agency and expertise to the "common man" at the eve of the Reformation.
- Subjects
HISTORY of medical literature; RENAISSANCE literature; GRUNINGER, Johannes; BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus; NATIVE language; GERMAN literature; LITERARY criticism; HISTORY of the Holy Roman Empire, 1273-1517; MIDDLE class; HISTORY of books &; reading; PRINTERS (Persons); HISTORY
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2020.315