Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany Paperback / softback
Edited by Gerhild Scholz Williams, Stephan K. Schindler
Part of the University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature series
Paperback / softback
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 on newly emerging epistemologies 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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:330 pages, 16 halftones
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781469656465
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:330 pages, 16 halftones
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781469656465
