The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity / / Arndt Brendecke, Peter Vogt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• HerausgeberIn: Brendecke, Arndt,; Vogt, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 218 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Content --; The Late Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity --; The Relationship between Regularity and Irregularity in Middle High German Poems on Fortuna --; Fortuna’s Sea Change --; Justus Lipsius (1547–1606): Fortune and War --; Fortuna Revalued --; Fortuna in Seventeenth Century Spain --; The Death of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity --; Farewell to Fortuna – Turning towards Fatum --; Fortuna in Early Modern Sweden --; La Fortune victime des Lumières ? --; List of Illustrations --; Index of Persons
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110455045; 9783110719543; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547764
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110455045
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Arndt Brendecke, Peter Vogt.

The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.