Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
Scholz Williams, Gerhild
Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany - The University of North Carolina Press 1996 - 1 electronic resource (328 p.)
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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.
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English
9781469656472_Williams
10.5149/9781469656472_Williams doi
Literature: history & criticism
German Studies Literature
Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany - The University of North Carolina Press 1996 - 1 electronic resource (328 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9781469656472_Williams
10.5149/9781469656472_Williams doi
Literature: history & criticism
German Studies Literature