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The Wordsworth Circle, Sep 1, 2003

Daphnis, Jul 18, 2017

The emblem book customized as a Stammbuch is a material manifestation of early modern cultural pr... more The emblem book customized as a Stammbuch is a material manifestation of early modern cultural practices of knowledge creation and organization. Dorothea von Anhalt’s use of Andreas Friedrich’s Emblemata Nova . . . (1617) as a Stammbuch created a hybrid artifact of dynasty and devotion as manuscript entries made by Dorothea’s extended family members merged with the existing printed material. This unique book illuminates female practices of recording, circulating, and preserving dynastic and religious knowledge at North German Protestant courts.

Daphnis, Mar 30, 2011

Der theoretische Rahmen des Kulturtransfers ermöglicht im Folgenden eine Untersuchung der poetisc... more Der theoretische Rahmen des Kulturtransfers ermöglicht im Folgenden eine Untersuchung der poetischen Wechselwirkungen unter den in Nürnberg lebenden und den überregionalen Mitgliedern des Pegnesischen Blumenordens in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts mit einem besonderen Blick auf die Ordensmitglieder im Baltikum. Dabei wird die Bedeutung ihrer Aktivitäten für die Überwindung von Gendergrenzen für schreibende Frauen unter die Lupe genommen.

The Sixteenth Century Journal

Daphnis, Mar 30, 1999

Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadur... more Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadurch die kulturellen Mechanismen und Dynamiken eher verschleiert als aufgedeckt werden. Letztlich ist das Buch von Schatz ein sehr zuverlässiges, nicht hagiographisches, aber doch von voller Sympathie getragenes Lebensbild in vergleichsweise traditionellem Gewand. Der Text folgt eng den autobiographischen Zeugnissen des Helden. Entsprechend rücken die insgesamt nur wenigen Jahre in Vietnam völlig ins Zentrum des Buches-der Rest des Lebens wird nicht ausgespart, aber doch vergleichsweise knapper behandelt. Das ist vor allem für den Persien-Teil am Ende sehr schade, hier hätte sich die Gelegenheit ergeben, diese unbekannte und abgelegene Mission einmal stärker in die Globalgeschichte der jesuitischen Mission einzufügen. In der Summe also ein sehr hilfreiches, in den dargestellten Details souveränes Buch über einen zu Unrecht wenig behandelten Jesuitenmissionar, der aber gerade deshalb eine vollständige, interpretativ vielschichtigere Gesamtdarstellung noch einmal unbedingt verdient hätte.

Böhlau Verlag eBooks, Mar 5, 2013

The German Quarterly, 1989

German Life and Letters, Sep 24, 2014

Marks of ownership and book inventories attest that several women from the court at Wolfenbuttel ... more Marks of ownership and book inventories attest that several women from the court at Wolfenbuttel owned copies of Georg Philipp Harsdorffer's Frauenzimmer Gesprachspiele (1641–57), one of the earliest literary works in the German language to be directed specifically at women as well as men. These books were often treasured objects of matrilineal inheritance. The dynastic women from Wolfenbuttel who owned the Gesprachspiele were authors in their own right, demonstrating a correlation between ownership of the Gesprachspiele and female literary agency.

Renaissance Quarterly, 2006

Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadur... more Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadurch die kulturellen Mechanismen und Dynamiken eher verschleiert als aufgedeckt werden. Letztlich ist das Buch von Schatz ein sehr zuverlässiges, nicht hagiographisches, aber doch von voller Sympathie getragenes Lebensbild in vergleichsweise traditionellem Gewand. Der Text folgt eng den autobiographischen Zeugnissen des Helden. Entsprechend rücken die insgesamt nur wenigen Jahre in Vietnam völlig ins Zentrum des Buches-der Rest des Lebens wird nicht ausgespart, aber doch vergleichsweise knapper behandelt. Das ist vor allem für den Persien-Teil am Ende sehr schade, hier hätte sich die Gelegenheit ergeben, diese unbekannte und abgelegene Mission einmal stärker in die Globalgeschichte der jesuitischen Mission einzufügen. In der Summe also ein sehr hilfreiches, in den dargestellten Details souveränes Buch über einen zu Unrecht wenig behandelten Jesuitenmissionar, der aber gerade deshalb eine vollständige, interpretativ vielschichtigere Gesamtdarstellung noch einmal unbedingt verdient hätte.

The Sixteenth century journal, 1997

''.Always news, rarely good news, but, if things always remained the same, God would not have to ... more ''.Always news, rarely good news, but, if things always remained the same, God would not have to send us so many unheard-off warning prophets in all the elements:' 1 Early modern Europe experienced significant political, social, and religious upheaval as competing claims about the purpose, methods, and authority of knowledge vied for public attention. Commenting on contemporary culture and the political and intellectual issues of their day, early modern writers constructed panoramas in print devoted to the recurring themes of wonders, the occult, emerging scientific thinking, and gender and social mores. Knowledge about the nature of God, the natural world, and men and women demanded scholarly and princely attention. It also gained increasingly the acclaim of the literate public. European and pan-European events, reports of common superstitions, beliefs in occult causes and signs, and accounts of God's communication with His people were widely disseminated in print and increasingly in the mainstay of the new media, the weekly and monthly newspaper. 2 Early modern central Europe (1500-1700) is an epoch marked by exhilarating as well as terrifying tensions between what was and what was to come. Contemporaries, among them the Neapolitan writer and philanthropist Giovan Battista Manso (1560-1645), hailed this period, specifically the Foreword xi age, the classical age, the golden age, the age of Shakespeare, and the age of the scientific revolution, witnessed an intensely productive and sometimes hostile intermingling and intertwining of the old and the new. For several decades, these were held in balance before each moved to its separate domicile in history. Not the hypothetical victory of progress over tradition or superstition, until recently considered quintessentially early modern, inspired the age, rather the fascination with the sowohl als auch, the both and either, seemed much more pronounced during the seventeenth century than at any other time before or since. 9 Nowadays, the early modern has become a cipher for a way of reflecting on history and change that resonates with us and our thinking. Increasingly bent on dominating the known world, yet ever mindful of its social and political volatility, and now increasingly interested in ecocriticism, medical humanities, and climate studies, the early modern reflects its own deep ambivalence and imperial grandeur in its awareness, as Hardt and Negri termed it, that it was a "fragile, baroque century" (77). 10 Consequently, the essays in this volume can be seen as shaping a tableau of what frequently appears as the epithet for this period, the crisis of the early modern age. 11 While the debate among historians about the crisis or crises of the early modern has cooled considerably since the mid-seventies and early eighties, the term crisis, referring to various aspects of the century's politics and culture, regularly reappears in the literature. 12 It is here that Hardt and Negri locate the cradle of modernity, the birth of modern Europe. 13 The fate of the people unfolded within the space that scholars and theologians described in the traditional analogy of micro-and macrocosm; mankind, the microcosm, lived within and, at the same time, mirrored the macrocosm, God and all of His creations. The records show that contemporaries believed that this century, more than any previous one, was marked by the appearance of uncounted prodigies and wonders, by comets and celestial portents. Either predicative or explicative, these comets and wonders accompanied the course of world events like an endless, albeit confusing, conversation between humankind and the divine, assiduously elucidated in print for all who could and wanted to understand. 14 Secrets of nature and the established ways of knowing continued to live alongside the excitement generated by all manners of new scientific, geographical, and astronomical discoveries vying for readers' and scholars' attention as well as for dominance in public consciousness. 15 These ways of knowing did not exclude each other nor did they impede each other's movement toward alternative models of explanation. 16 New discoveries in all areas of knowledge also did not consign previous ways of knowing to oblivion just yet. Whether xv Foreword WORKS CITED

The German Quarterly, 1993

Daphnis, Mar 30, 1987

Mora Wade THE RECEPTION OF OPITZ'S lUDITH DURING THE BAROQUE By virtue of its status as the secon... more Mora Wade THE RECEPTION OF OPITZ'S lUDITH DURING THE BAROQUE By virtue of its status as the second German opera libretto, Martin Opitz's ludith (1635), has received little critical attention in its own right. l ludith stands in the shadow of its predecessor, Da/ne (1627),2 also by Opitz, as weH as in that of a successor, Harsdörffer and Staden's See/ewig (1644), the first German-Ianguage opera to which the music is extant today.3 Both libretti by Opitz, Dafne and ludith, are the earliest examples of the reception of Italian opera into German-speaking lands. 4 Da/ne was based on the opera ofthe

The German Quarterly, 1986

Google Books Result diese this das utc utc his seinem his seinen his seine his sein his seiner no... more Google Books Result diese this das utc utc his seinem his seinen his seine his sein his seiner not not not one ein new neuer new neue new neu new neuen new neues first erste first

Deep Blue (University of Michigan), 1984

The focus of this study is on the earliest German-language opera libretti, the pastoral Singspiel... more The focus of this study is on the earliest German-language opera libretti, the pastoral Singspiele. The history of the term is traced throughout various German poetical treatises of the seventeenth century, beginning with Opitz and ending with Stieler. The three works studied are: Seelewig (1644) by Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (1607-1658) and Sigmund Theophil Staden (1607-1655); Psyche (1652) by Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681) and Georg Walch (d.1656); and Amelinde (1657) by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Braunschweig and Luneburg (1633-1704) and Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Braunschweig and Luneburg (1613-1676). A heretofore unnoticed translation from the Italian entitled Ein qar Schon Geistliches Waldqetichte qenant die Gluckseeliqe Seele (1637) which served as the primary literary source for Harsdorffer's text is examined in detail for the first time and compared to Seelewig in terms of themes, motifs, and meters. New information regarding the composer of Birken's text Psyche, Georg Walch, as well as about this Singspiel itself, is also brought to light. The performance of Seelewig at the Wolfenbuttel court in 1654 and its influence on Anton Ulrich's Amelinde is discussed in depth. All three works, Seelewig, Psyche, and Amelinde are compared with each other in terms of dramatic structure, poetic formulation of the text, and extent of musical accompaniment. The themes and motifs of these early pastoral Singspiele as well as the historical development of the term Singspiel in the German language indicate that these works are direct descendants of early Italian opera or dramma per musica. In fact, the single allegorical theme, that of the struggle between the Soul (Anima) and Body (Corpo) in human life unites all three of the German Singspiele. Additionally, similarities of the German text Ein gar Schon Geistliches Waldgetichte (1637) to the Italian Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo by Cavalieri and Manni are discussed in detail. The three German works were clearly written for didactic purposes and demonstrate an attempt to portray the rewards of virtue in harmony with a Christian, that is German Protestant, world view.Ph.D.German literatureUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/160440/1/8502949.pd

Oxford University Press eBooks, 2002

Renaissance Quarterly, 2005

... Le Roux provides an overview of secular and liturgical festivals under the last Valois, while... more ... Le Roux provides an overview of secular and liturgical festivals under the last Valois, while Grell reinterprets documents published by Marie ... attention in Peter Davidson's essay recreating the physical world of the entry of Federigo Ubaldo della Rovere and Claudia de' Medici ...

The Wordsworth Circle, Sep 1, 2003

Daphnis, Jul 18, 2017

The emblem book customized as a Stammbuch is a material manifestation of early modern cultural pr... more The emblem book customized as a Stammbuch is a material manifestation of early modern cultural practices of knowledge creation and organization. Dorothea von Anhalt’s use of Andreas Friedrich’s Emblemata Nova . . . (1617) as a Stammbuch created a hybrid artifact of dynasty and devotion as manuscript entries made by Dorothea’s extended family members merged with the existing printed material. This unique book illuminates female practices of recording, circulating, and preserving dynastic and religious knowledge at North German Protestant courts.

Daphnis, Mar 30, 2011

Der theoretische Rahmen des Kulturtransfers ermöglicht im Folgenden eine Untersuchung der poetisc... more Der theoretische Rahmen des Kulturtransfers ermöglicht im Folgenden eine Untersuchung der poetischen Wechselwirkungen unter den in Nürnberg lebenden und den überregionalen Mitgliedern des Pegnesischen Blumenordens in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts mit einem besonderen Blick auf die Ordensmitglieder im Baltikum. Dabei wird die Bedeutung ihrer Aktivitäten für die Überwindung von Gendergrenzen für schreibende Frauen unter die Lupe genommen.

The Sixteenth Century Journal

Daphnis, Mar 30, 1999

Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadur... more Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadurch die kulturellen Mechanismen und Dynamiken eher verschleiert als aufgedeckt werden. Letztlich ist das Buch von Schatz ein sehr zuverlässiges, nicht hagiographisches, aber doch von voller Sympathie getragenes Lebensbild in vergleichsweise traditionellem Gewand. Der Text folgt eng den autobiographischen Zeugnissen des Helden. Entsprechend rücken die insgesamt nur wenigen Jahre in Vietnam völlig ins Zentrum des Buches-der Rest des Lebens wird nicht ausgespart, aber doch vergleichsweise knapper behandelt. Das ist vor allem für den Persien-Teil am Ende sehr schade, hier hätte sich die Gelegenheit ergeben, diese unbekannte und abgelegene Mission einmal stärker in die Globalgeschichte der jesuitischen Mission einzufügen. In der Summe also ein sehr hilfreiches, in den dargestellten Details souveränes Buch über einen zu Unrecht wenig behandelten Jesuitenmissionar, der aber gerade deshalb eine vollständige, interpretativ vielschichtigere Gesamtdarstellung noch einmal unbedingt verdient hätte.

Böhlau Verlag eBooks, Mar 5, 2013

The German Quarterly, 1989

German Life and Letters, Sep 24, 2014

Marks of ownership and book inventories attest that several women from the court at Wolfenbuttel ... more Marks of ownership and book inventories attest that several women from the court at Wolfenbuttel owned copies of Georg Philipp Harsdorffer's Frauenzimmer Gesprachspiele (1641–57), one of the earliest literary works in the German language to be directed specifically at women as well as men. These books were often treasured objects of matrilineal inheritance. The dynastic women from Wolfenbuttel who owned the Gesprachspiele were authors in their own right, demonstrating a correlation between ownership of the Gesprachspiele and female literary agency.

Renaissance Quarterly, 2006

Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadur... more Historiker scheint mir das auch für den Bereich der Kirchengeschichte wenig hilfreich, weil dadurch die kulturellen Mechanismen und Dynamiken eher verschleiert als aufgedeckt werden. Letztlich ist das Buch von Schatz ein sehr zuverlässiges, nicht hagiographisches, aber doch von voller Sympathie getragenes Lebensbild in vergleichsweise traditionellem Gewand. Der Text folgt eng den autobiographischen Zeugnissen des Helden. Entsprechend rücken die insgesamt nur wenigen Jahre in Vietnam völlig ins Zentrum des Buches-der Rest des Lebens wird nicht ausgespart, aber doch vergleichsweise knapper behandelt. Das ist vor allem für den Persien-Teil am Ende sehr schade, hier hätte sich die Gelegenheit ergeben, diese unbekannte und abgelegene Mission einmal stärker in die Globalgeschichte der jesuitischen Mission einzufügen. In der Summe also ein sehr hilfreiches, in den dargestellten Details souveränes Buch über einen zu Unrecht wenig behandelten Jesuitenmissionar, der aber gerade deshalb eine vollständige, interpretativ vielschichtigere Gesamtdarstellung noch einmal unbedingt verdient hätte.

The Sixteenth century journal, 1997

''.Always news, rarely good news, but, if things always remained the same, God would not have to ... more ''.Always news, rarely good news, but, if things always remained the same, God would not have to send us so many unheard-off warning prophets in all the elements:' 1 Early modern Europe experienced significant political, social, and religious upheaval as competing claims about the purpose, methods, and authority of knowledge vied for public attention. Commenting on contemporary culture and the political and intellectual issues of their day, early modern writers constructed panoramas in print devoted to the recurring themes of wonders, the occult, emerging scientific thinking, and gender and social mores. Knowledge about the nature of God, the natural world, and men and women demanded scholarly and princely attention. It also gained increasingly the acclaim of the literate public. European and pan-European events, reports of common superstitions, beliefs in occult causes and signs, and accounts of God's communication with His people were widely disseminated in print and increasingly in the mainstay of the new media, the weekly and monthly newspaper. 2 Early modern central Europe (1500-1700) is an epoch marked by exhilarating as well as terrifying tensions between what was and what was to come. Contemporaries, among them the Neapolitan writer and philanthropist Giovan Battista Manso (1560-1645), hailed this period, specifically the Foreword xi age, the classical age, the golden age, the age of Shakespeare, and the age of the scientific revolution, witnessed an intensely productive and sometimes hostile intermingling and intertwining of the old and the new. For several decades, these were held in balance before each moved to its separate domicile in history. Not the hypothetical victory of progress over tradition or superstition, until recently considered quintessentially early modern, inspired the age, rather the fascination with the sowohl als auch, the both and either, seemed much more pronounced during the seventeenth century than at any other time before or since. 9 Nowadays, the early modern has become a cipher for a way of reflecting on history and change that resonates with us and our thinking. Increasingly bent on dominating the known world, yet ever mindful of its social and political volatility, and now increasingly interested in ecocriticism, medical humanities, and climate studies, the early modern reflects its own deep ambivalence and imperial grandeur in its awareness, as Hardt and Negri termed it, that it was a "fragile, baroque century" (77). 10 Consequently, the essays in this volume can be seen as shaping a tableau of what frequently appears as the epithet for this period, the crisis of the early modern age. 11 While the debate among historians about the crisis or crises of the early modern has cooled considerably since the mid-seventies and early eighties, the term crisis, referring to various aspects of the century's politics and culture, regularly reappears in the literature. 12 It is here that Hardt and Negri locate the cradle of modernity, the birth of modern Europe. 13 The fate of the people unfolded within the space that scholars and theologians described in the traditional analogy of micro-and macrocosm; mankind, the microcosm, lived within and, at the same time, mirrored the macrocosm, God and all of His creations. The records show that contemporaries believed that this century, more than any previous one, was marked by the appearance of uncounted prodigies and wonders, by comets and celestial portents. Either predicative or explicative, these comets and wonders accompanied the course of world events like an endless, albeit confusing, conversation between humankind and the divine, assiduously elucidated in print for all who could and wanted to understand. 14 Secrets of nature and the established ways of knowing continued to live alongside the excitement generated by all manners of new scientific, geographical, and astronomical discoveries vying for readers' and scholars' attention as well as for dominance in public consciousness. 15 These ways of knowing did not exclude each other nor did they impede each other's movement toward alternative models of explanation. 16 New discoveries in all areas of knowledge also did not consign previous ways of knowing to oblivion just yet. Whether xv Foreword WORKS CITED

The German Quarterly, 1993

Daphnis, Mar 30, 1987

Mora Wade THE RECEPTION OF OPITZ'S lUDITH DURING THE BAROQUE By virtue of its status as the secon... more Mora Wade THE RECEPTION OF OPITZ'S lUDITH DURING THE BAROQUE By virtue of its status as the second German opera libretto, Martin Opitz's ludith (1635), has received little critical attention in its own right. l ludith stands in the shadow of its predecessor, Da/ne (1627),2 also by Opitz, as weH as in that of a successor, Harsdörffer and Staden's See/ewig (1644), the first German-Ianguage opera to which the music is extant today.3 Both libretti by Opitz, Dafne and ludith, are the earliest examples of the reception of Italian opera into German-speaking lands. 4 Da/ne was based on the opera ofthe

The German Quarterly, 1986

Google Books Result diese this das utc utc his seinem his seinen his seine his sein his seiner no... more Google Books Result diese this das utc utc his seinem his seinen his seine his sein his seiner not not not one ein new neuer new neue new neu new neuen new neues first erste first

Deep Blue (University of Michigan), 1984

The focus of this study is on the earliest German-language opera libretti, the pastoral Singspiel... more The focus of this study is on the earliest German-language opera libretti, the pastoral Singspiele. The history of the term is traced throughout various German poetical treatises of the seventeenth century, beginning with Opitz and ending with Stieler. The three works studied are: Seelewig (1644) by Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (1607-1658) and Sigmund Theophil Staden (1607-1655); Psyche (1652) by Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681) and Georg Walch (d.1656); and Amelinde (1657) by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Braunschweig and Luneburg (1633-1704) and Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Braunschweig and Luneburg (1613-1676). A heretofore unnoticed translation from the Italian entitled Ein qar Schon Geistliches Waldqetichte qenant die Gluckseeliqe Seele (1637) which served as the primary literary source for Harsdorffer's text is examined in detail for the first time and compared to Seelewig in terms of themes, motifs, and meters. New information regarding the composer of Birken's text Psyche, Georg Walch, as well as about this Singspiel itself, is also brought to light. The performance of Seelewig at the Wolfenbuttel court in 1654 and its influence on Anton Ulrich's Amelinde is discussed in depth. All three works, Seelewig, Psyche, and Amelinde are compared with each other in terms of dramatic structure, poetic formulation of the text, and extent of musical accompaniment. The themes and motifs of these early pastoral Singspiele as well as the historical development of the term Singspiel in the German language indicate that these works are direct descendants of early Italian opera or dramma per musica. In fact, the single allegorical theme, that of the struggle between the Soul (Anima) and Body (Corpo) in human life unites all three of the German Singspiele. Additionally, similarities of the German text Ein gar Schon Geistliches Waldgetichte (1637) to the Italian Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo by Cavalieri and Manni are discussed in detail. The three German works were clearly written for didactic purposes and demonstrate an attempt to portray the rewards of virtue in harmony with a Christian, that is German Protestant, world view.Ph.D.German literatureUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/160440/1/8502949.pd

Oxford University Press eBooks, 2002

Renaissance Quarterly, 2005

... Le Roux provides an overview of secular and liturgical festivals under the last Valois, while... more ... Le Roux provides an overview of secular and liturgical festivals under the last Valois, while Grell reinterprets documents published by Marie ... attention in Peter Davidson's essay recreating the physical world of the entry of Federigo Ubaldo della Rovere and Claudia de' Medici ...