Product Description: Die Bande des Verfasserlexikon Fruhe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620 sind nicht als einzelne E-Books verfugbar, sondern Bestandteil der Verfasserdatenbank. "

Product Description: Since the Dictionary of Authors The Early Modern Era in Germany 1520-1620 is part of the Verfasserdatenbank(Database of Authors), single issues are not available as e-books. "

Product Description: scholars of the history of theology and the humanities from North America, Scandinavia and Germany investigate Biblical hermeneutics from its foundations laid during the Reformation (Luther, Melanchthon) to its multifaceted effects during the 16th and 17th centuries...read more

This volume contains studies on the interdisciplinary exploration of the intermedial interpretation of the New Testament narrative material concerning Golgotha in the Early Modern Age. Special consideration has been given to multifaceted aspects of the history of theology, exegesis, art, literature and music.

Product Description: Starting with the lyric poetry, this volume opens the first critical edition of the sacred works of the prominent Nuremberg Baroque poet Sigmund von Birken (1626 1681). A double volume, it provides access to the most extensive collection of Birken's sacred poetry still extant in manuscript...read more

Product Description: Die Leichabdankungen von Andreas Gryphius, hier erstmals kritisch ediert, gelten als einmalige Zeugnisse frühneuzeitlicher Trauer- und Trostkultur. Der Edition liegt die postum erschienene Sammelausgabe (1666) zugrunde. Ein Textanhang enthält sämtliche Beigaben zu den Erstdrucken der Leichabdankungen, die keine Aufnahme in den Sammeldruck gefunden haben, und alle Texte, die von Gryphius zum jeweiligen Casus über die betreffende Leichabdankung hinaus verfaßt worden sind...read more

Product Description: "Go seek, my heart, the joys of life" by Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) counts among the best-known German church hymns and is one of the most vivid extant texts from the Age of Baroque. Johann Anselm Steiger presents an historically sensitive interpretation of this masterpiece and decodes the Summer Song consistently from its contexts in the history of piety, lyric poetry and theology...read more

Product Description: "The sacrificing of Isaac" (Genesis 22) was subjected to intensive interpretation by the various religious denominations in the early modern age. The contributors to this volume are historians from the fields of exegesis, art, literature and music; they focus on the wide variety of texts and media genres in which the story is represented (commentary, disputation, sermon, theatrical play, devotional guide, meditation landscape, altar tableau, sacred poem inter alia) and demonstrate what part the stage, painting, sculpture and sacred music played in the interpretation of the biblical text...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the tradition of the medical theology of Martin Luther and baroque Lutheranism. It focuses on the reformational interpretation of the topic of Christ the Physician, which reaches back to the Old Church, and its sacramental, conciliary, and medico-theological relevance...read more

Product Description: This study re-deciphers five central themes in the theology and hermeneutics of Martin Luther. Special attention is given to the fact that Christology enters the theology of the reformer in all its aspects. In addition the study demonstrates how Lutheran theology of the Baroque Age is relevant for a better understanding of Luther s work...read more