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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Outros Autores: Scholz Williams, Gerhild (Editor), Schindler, Stephan K. (Editor)
Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: The University of North Carolina Press 1996
Colecção:UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Resumo: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.
Descrição Física:1 electronic resource (328 p.)
ISBN:9781469656472_Williams
Acesso:Open Access