| Description |
251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity |
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Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index. |
| Contents |
Wondrous people : early modern diversity (Anthropodemus plutonic) -- Demonology and topography : locating giants and witches -- The global and the local : wonders in the news -- Gender and class : the woman's lot. |
| Summary |
"Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius's works. She introduces the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the genres that this educated and productive German scholar and polymath presented to his audience in the seventeenth century. By relating these individual works to a number of contemporaneous writings, Williams shows how Praetorius constructed a panorama in print in which wonders, the occult, the emerging scientific way of thinking, family and social mores are recurrent themes."--Jacket. |
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Praetorius, Johannes, 1630-1680 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Praetorius, Johannes, 1630-1680 (OCoLC)fst00226891
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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Women -- Germany -- History -- 17th century.
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Witchcraft -- Germany -- History -- 17th century.
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1699
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Scholz Williams, Gerhild, 1942- Ways of knowing in early modern Germany. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2006 (OCoLC)607796644 |
| ISBN |
0754655512 (acid-free paper) |
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9780754655510 (acid-free paper) |
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