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 distinguished scholars regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine the natural world the body sexuality intellectual property aesthetics demons and witches.<br/><br/>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.