Title: Ways of knowing in early modern Germany
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Criticism and interpretation, History of ideas, intellectual history, Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries, Literary Criticism, Germany, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, German, Rhetoric, European - German, 17th century, History, Witchcraft, Women, Germany, intellectual life
Places: Germany
People: Johannes Praetorius (1630-1680)
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: PT1757.P786 Z88 2005