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<p><P>This is an exciting interpretation of early modern European history.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Albrecht D rer's famous woodcut of the four horsemen as described in the Book of Revelation has been studied at great length and from many angles. However, the authors of this new study make a significant contribution to the discussion by demonstrating that contemporary folk consciously used this particular image to better understand the troubles that beset them and to frame these crises in an intelligible and meaningful context. As Cunningham and Grell, of Cambridge University and the Open University, respectively, maintain, D rer's Four Horsemen informed the sense of apocalyptic dread that permeated European society from about 1490 until 1648, when the end of the 30 Years War brought about a more stabilized society that no longer used the Apocalypse as its defining paradigm. D rer, of course, was not the first artist to create an image of the Apocalypse. However, the authors argue compellingly that what made D rer's image resonate so strongly with his contemporaries (and with generations of artists afterward) was that it showed all of the horsemen arriving together, thus uni

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Author

Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell, Cunningham, Andrew Dr

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521467018

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, History

Rating

3.55 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14