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This anthology assembles cross-disciplinary perspectives on the experience of and responses to forms of material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany, tracing how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of such events as war, religious reform, bankruptcy, religious marginalization, the death of spouses and children, and the loss of freedom of movement through a spectrum of activities including writing poetry, keeping diaries, erecting monuments, collecting books, singing, painting, reconfiguring space, repeatedly migrating, and painting, and thereby not only turned loss into gain but self-consciously made history. Emerging from the 2008 interdisiplinary conference of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, the essays reveal how loss helped to create identity and gave rise to agency and creativity on the cusp of modernity.
Contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Claudia Benthien, Jill Bepler, Duane J. Corpis, Alexander J. Fisher, Ulrike Gleixner, Claudia Jarzebowski, Hans Medick, Barbara Lawatsch Melton, Christopher Ocker, Helmut Puff, Thomas Max Safley, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Lynne Tatlock, Mara Wade, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Bethany Wiggin.
Contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Claudia Benthien, Jill Bepler, Duane J. Corpis, Alexander J. Fisher, Ulrike Gleixner, Claudia Jarzebowski, Hans Medick, Barbara Lawatsch Melton, Christopher Ocker, Helmut Puff, Thomas Max Safley, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Lynne Tatlock, Mara Wade, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Bethany Wiggin.
Price: $229.00
Pages: 478
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Central European Histories
Publication Date:
05 July 2010
ISBN: 9789004184541
Format: Hardcover
"[T]he volume provides a wealth of valuable insights on culture and emotion in the German-speaking lands during a turbulent and troubled time. Given recent interest among cultural historians and literary scholars in issues of emotion and its representation and memory and its commemoration, the collection makes a valuable contribution. [...] The production quality of this substantial and handsome book is excellent, and the essays are enhanced by nearly fifty illustrations and figures, a comprehensive bibliography, and a detailed index." – Jason P. Coy, College of Charleston, in: The Journal of Modern History 84/3 (September 2012), pp. 758-760
Lynne Tatlock (Ph.D. 1981, Indiana University) is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She has published widely on German literature and culture and recently translated meditations by Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (Chicago, 2008).