It would be hard to overestimate the significance of Classical mythology for the literature, drama, music, pictorial arts, emblematics, and festivity culture of the Renaissance. The volume presents the proceedings of a colloquium organized by the WolfenbA1/4ttel Work Group on Renaissance Research titled "Renaissance Culture and Classical Mythology" (Herzog August Library, 7-10 October 1996, with B. GuthmA1/4ller in the chair). The aim of the colloquium was first to cast light on some new and lesser known aspects of myth in Renaissance culture, and second to provide a forum for new interpretations and evaluations on a number of controversial issues.

In einem auf drei Bande angelegten Dokumentationswerk werden Entstehung und Ausbreitung des Paracelsismus in den kontroversen Verflechtungen der Wissenschafts-, Literatur- und Sozialgeschichte des spaten 16. Jahrhunderts verankert. Die kritische Edition aufschlussreicher, oft in unbekanntes Terrain fuhrender Texte ist begleitet von umfangreichen Kommentaren sowie von biographischen Darstellungen der Urheber, Adressaten, Gegner bzw. Sympathisanten der paracelsistischen Reform und Protestbewegung. Der zweite Band des "Corpus Paracelsisticum" erschliesst das weitlaufige Oeuvre von Michael Toxites und Gerhard Dorn, wirkmachtige Grundergestalten des oberrheinischen Paracelsismus. Von da aus fallt der Blick quer uber die Konfessionsgrenzen auf andere kulturelle Zentren in Bayern, Sachsen, Schlesien, Boehmen und am Niederrhein. Mit Verfassern wie G. Fedro, M. Ambrosius, L. Span, B. Floeter, G. Etschenreutter, B. Scultetus, P. Perna, Th. Zwinger und J. Albrecht eroeffnet sich ein epochaler, ausserst weitlaufiger Diskurszusammenhang. In ihm lassen sich doxographische, methodische, hermeneutische, sprachtheoretische und uberlieferungsspezifische Auseinandersetzungen ebenso beobachten wie Tendenzen einer theosophischen Spiritualisierung und heterodoxen Aufladung der in Paracelsus' Namen entwickelten Anthropologie und Kosmologie. Direkte Verbindungen ergeben sich unter anderem zu fuhrenden Vertretern der sogenannten Schwenckfelder, damit auch zu Fraktionen aktiver protestantischer Dissidenten. Der Band wird neben dem weiterfuhrenden Kommentar begleitet von einer ausfuhrlichen Einleitung und erschlossen nicht nur durch mehrere Register, sondern auch durch wissenschaftshistorische Zusammenfassungen zu jedem Autorcorpus.

This is a critical edition, with translation and commentary, of part of the cycle of elegies entitled AUrania VictrixA (1663), the important late poetic work of Jacob Baldes, Germany's most internationally renowned Jesuit poet. The work is not only a challenging example of edificatory literature faithfully reflecting the conflicts of the age, but also a compendium of Baroque knowledge culture, in which the five senses of the human body each enlarge upon their own experience of the modern world.

The studies assembled here provide a comprehensive survey of German poetry in the early modern age. Penned by an outstanding authority on neo-Latin and German literature, they supply interpretations of little-known poetic works of the period and cast a new light on more familiar works in the literary canon. The immensely detailed knowledge informing the different articles adds up to a literary image of the epoch as a whole. The individual poems discussed provide the basis for these micro-studies in literary history. Together with a constant concern for their aesthetic form, the approach achieves an appropriate understanding of these complex texts. At one and the same time, the volume is an introduction to the salient issues posed by the epoch in question and a guide to the present state of research on the poetry of the early modern age. The rich source material examined and analyzed in the process both enhances and reshapes our knowledge of the subject.

The Old Testament Book of Jonah has attracted considerable attention ever since ancient Christian times and has stimulated the production of numerous commentaries, sermons, poetical compositions and visual depictions. Indeed, the story of Jonah has provoked heterogeneous adaptions even in the realm of contemporary literature. This volume contains studies featuring interdisciplinary exploration of the story's intermedial interpretation from ancient times through to the 20th century. In the process it considers multifaceted aspects of theology, exegesis, literature, culture and art history.

The fruit of long years of collaboration, this volume brings together studies of fundamental importance on sources of significance for the literary and cultural history of Alsace, with special reference to the city of Strasbourg. An essential element for the historiography of late humanism in Strasbourg is the presentation of evidence on scholarly and political controversies. Of central significance here is the most important regional literary society of the age, the Tannengesellschaft in Strasbourg. A study of its members, notably Rompler von LAwenhalt and Johann Michael Moscherosch, highlights a number of currents operative at the time and also the striking continuity and diversity of satirical writing. Aspects of the history of publishing in Strasbourg receive close attention, as do intertextual connections and thematic strands of major import in this connection. The annex provides indications for further reading.

Miklos ZrA-nyi the Elder (died 1566) and his great-grandson and namesake (died 1664), the general, politician, poet and educated man of the world, are the topics of this work, not only as great names in Hungarian history but also as European figures of inestimable charisma. Numerous texts from the culture of the Old Reich bear witness to thisa ' reports, poems, flyers, sermons, stories, novels - and also dramas such as Theodor KArnera (TM)s tragedy. These proceedings of an international conference document the exact state of research and provide a wide-reaching reconstruction of the foundations, forms, stages and perspectives of this reputation, concentrating on accessing known and unknown works from German literature.

This is the first installment of a body of documentation extending to four volumes on the origins and dissemination of Paracelsianism and its roots in the controversial interrelations between science, literature and the history of late 16th century society. The critical edition of texts casting new light on this question and frequently breaking hitherto unknown terrain is accompanied by detailed commentaries and biographical material on the instigators, addressees, opponents and sympathizers of the Paracelsian reform and protest movement.

For the first time, these proceedings from an interdisciplinary and international symposium use a broad foundation of sources to examine the first period (1620 1790) in the history of the major European impact of Jakob Bohme, a history that extended well into the 20th century. The contributors reveal the conflicted and contrasting patterns and modalities of reception along with the different positions taken in response to Bohme in the works of important cultural figures. These studies show the existence of a conflict zone in intellectual history and also in the history of language and literature that extended beyond the German-speaking world."