Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany

Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
ISBN-10
1469656469
ISBN-13
9781469656465
Category
German literature
Language
English
Published
2020-10
Authors
Gerhild Scholz Williams, Stephan K. Schindler

Description

Early modern Germany saw the dissemination of vast quantities of information at unprecedented speed. Popular knowledge, scientific inquiry, and scholarship influenced the political order, poetic expression, public opinion, and mechanisms of social control. This collection presents twelve essays by distinguished scholars regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine, the natural world, the body, sexuality, intellectual property, aesthetics, demons, and witches. The contributors are Thomas Cramer, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Jan-Dirk Maller, James A. Parente, Jr., Stephan K. Schindler, Gerhard F. Strasser, Lynne Tatlock, Elaine Tennant, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

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