Abstract

This is the title page of Peace-Wishing Germany, a drama written by the Northern German poet and Lutheran preacher Johann Rist (1607-67). Germany is depicted as a battered woman who, threatened from all sides, cries to the heavens for peace. A town burns in the background. In the foreground, a Turk lingers in the shadows with his sword raised.

Title Page of the Drama, Peace-Wishing Germany by Johann Rist (1647)

Source

Source: Title Page of the Drama, Peace-Wishing Germany by Johann Rist, copperplate engraving by an unknown artist, 1647.
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Recommended Citation

Title Page of the Drama, Peace-Wishing Germany by Johann Rist (1647), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-the-reformations-to-the-thirty-years-war-1500-1648/ghdi:image-3359> [April 22, 2025].