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In:Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, M.O. Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 14] 2023
► pp. 319–335

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Rooster primers

A transnational history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries

 | Independent researcher, Essen
Published online: 6 January 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.14.27sro
Article outline
  • A guiding pictorial motif for more than four centuries: The rooster in primers from the sixteenth, eighteenth and twenty-first centuries
  • Rooster primers: Towards a transnational approach
  • Rooster primers: General characteristics
  • Rooster primers: Early history and meanings of the rooster
  • The rooster: From a Christian to an ambiguous and eventually to a mundane symbol
  • Catechism primers with a picture of the rooster on the last page
  • The Lord’s prayer in a Swedish, a German and a Finnish rooster primer
  • Destinations of long-distance travels: The rooster in primers in Pennsylvania, Eritrea and Dagestan
  • The rooster primer as a transnational phenomenon: Conclusions
  • References
  • Notes
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