Ways of knowing in early modern Germany
Subtitle: Johannes Praetorius as a witness to his time
By: Gerhild Scholz Williams.
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Praetorius, Johannes, 1630-1680 -- Criticism and interpretation; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wondrous people: early modern diversity (Anthropodemus plutonic); title: Demonology and topography: locating giants and witches; title: The global and the local: wonders in the news; title: Gender and class: the woman's lot.