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Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture: Order and Creativity 1550-1750 (Studies in Central European Histories): 42
Author(s): Randolph C. Head (Editor), Daniel Christensen
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 13 Nov. 2007
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 302 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004162763
- ISBN-13: 9789004162761
Book Description
This interdisciplinary collection of essays about early modern Germany addresses the tensions, both fruitful and destructive, between normative systems of order on the one hand, and a growing diversity of practices on the other. Individual essays address crucial struggles over religious orthodoxy after the Reformation, the transformation of political loyalties through propaganda and literature, and efforts to redefine both canonical forms and new challenges to them in literature, music, and the arts. Bringing together the most exciting papers from the 2005 conference of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, an international research and conference group, the collection offers fresh comparative insights into the terrifying as well as exhilarating predicaments that the people of the Holy Roman Empire faced between the Reformation and the Enlightenment.
Contributors include: Claudia Benthien, Robert von Friedeburg, Markus Friedrich, Claire Gantet, Susan Lewis Hammond, Thomas Kaufmann, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Benjamin Marschke, Nathan Baruch Rein, and Ashley West.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Covering topics such as religious tolerance, historical paintings, the myths of Swiss identity, understanding of fatherland, and even silence, the (…) essays in this work takes the range of what comprises knowledge and orthodoxy seriously and with fascinating results. The book itself is beautifully presented (… and) brings together the work of European and North American scholars and includes essays from senior German-speaking scholars whose work have rarely appeared in English.”
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Renaissance Quarterly (2008) 589-590.
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Renaissance Quarterly (2008) 589-590.
“It is difficult to single out particular essays for special praise since they are all very good.”
Amy Nelson Burnett,
About the Author
Randolph C. Head, Ph.D. (1992), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. His research on institutional culture in early modern Switzerland includes Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons (1995) and articles in major journals.
Daniel Christensen, Ph.D. (2004), University of California, Riverside, is Assistant Professor of History at Biola University. His research interests include the politics of epidemic disease in early modern Germany and the interplay of Christianity and politics in post-Reformation Germany.
