Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany

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 d...

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Autres auteurs: Scholz Williams, Gerhild (Éditeur intellectuel), Schindler, Stephan K. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: The University of North Carolina Press 1996
Collection:UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Résumé: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 Måller, James A. Parente, Jr., Stephan K. Schindler, Gerhard F. Strasser, Lynne Tatlock, Elaine Tennant, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.
Description matérielle:1 electronic resource (328 p.)
ISBN:9781469656472_Williams
Accès:Open Access