Sermons in the Sky: Apparitions in Early Modern Europe

Alexandra Walsham looks for the meaning of unusual phenomena widely reported across early modern Europe.

Alexandra Walsham | Published in History Today Volume 51 Issue 4 April 2001
Celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg, 14 April 1561. Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung/Wiki Commons.
Celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg, 14 April 1561. Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung/Wiki Commons.

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