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  • The Cultivation of Monarchy and the Rise of Berlin

    Brandenburg-Prussia 1700

    by Karin Friedrich ...
    The start of the eighteenth century witnessed the elevation of Prussia to monarchic status, a reflection of the rising importance of the Hohenzollern dynasty within the Empire as well as in Central Europe. In tandem with this, Berlin came to the fore as the capital city of Brandenburg, with the establishment there of the royal court. This volume makes available for the first time a selection of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

    Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860

    Edited by Daniel Riches, Sara Smart, Alexander Schunka, Benjamin Marschke ...
    Series Book 30 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessional circumstances at court commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Selected Poems and Fragments

    by Friedrich Hölderlin ...
    Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of ... Read more

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  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Novel Translations

    The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730

    by Bethany Wiggin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across ... Read more

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  • The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

    by Roger Paulin ...
    This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of ... Read more

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  • German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    by G Atkins ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism
    The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity of the new regime.In German Literature Through Nazi Eyes, H.G. Atkins gives an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Bach

    Edited by Yo Tomita ...
    Series series The Baroque Composers
    For nearly two centuries Johann Sebastian Bach has been regarded as a cornerstone of Western musical culture. His music inspired subsequent generations of composers and philosophers alike, and continues to capture our imaginations in many ways. Bach studies is part of this picture, often seen as providing excellent examples of musicological scholarship. The volume editor has chosen thirty-one ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Nicholas of Cusa

    A Medieval Thinker for the Modern Age

    Edited by Kazuhiko Yamaki ...
    Nicholas of Cusa (1401 64), doctor of canon law, church politician and philosopher, was one of the most important thinkers of 15th century Europe. This year marks the sixth centenary of his birth. Scholars from round the globe gathered in Tokyo for the 19th Cusanus Congress last year; this volume makes their contributions more widely available. Major themes examined include tradition and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Arminius the Liberator

    Myth and Ideology

    by Martin M. Winkler ...
    Arminius the Liberator deals with the complex modern reception of Arminius the Cheruscan, commonly called Hermann. Arminius inflicted one of their most devastating defeats on the Romans in the year 9 A.D. by annihilating three legions under the command of Quintilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, as it is generally if inaccurately called. This book traces the origin of the Arminius ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II

    The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839)

    Edited by Michael Hüttler, Hans Ernst Weidinger ...
    Series Book 3 - Ottomania
    The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Sultan Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), the second volume of Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, explores the relationship between Western playwrights, composers and visual artists of the eighteenth-century and Turkish-Ottoman culture, as well as the interest of Ottoman artists in European culture. Twenty-seven contributions by renowned experts shed light ... Read more

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  • Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany

    Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time

    by Gerhild Scholz Williams ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    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 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD