Enduring loss in early modern Germany : cross disciplinary perspectives / / edited by Lynne Tatlock.

• Superior document: Studies in Central European histories, v. 50
• Author: Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (Group)
• TeilnehmendeR: Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-; Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (Group)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Central European histories ; v. 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 p.)
• Notes: Essays from papers presented at fifth triennial conference of Fruhe Neuzeit Interdisziplinar (FNI), held at Duke University, March 27-29, 2008.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282952684; 9786612952685; 9004185348
• ISSN: 1547-1217
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lynne Tatlock.

This anthology assembles cross-disciplinary perspectives on the experience of and responses to forms of material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany, tracing how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of such events as war, religious reform, bankruptcy, religious marginalization, the death of spouses and children, and the loss of freedom of movement through a spectrum of activities including writing poetry, keeping diaries, erecting monuments, collecting books, singing, painting, reconfiguring space, repeatedly migrating, and painting, and thereby not only turned loss into gain but self-consciously made history. Emerging from the 2008 interdisiplinary conference of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär , the essays reveal how loss helped to create identity and gave rise to agency and creativity on the cusp of modernity. Contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Claudia Benthien, Jill Bepler, Duane J. Corpis, Alexander J. Fisher, Ulrike Gleixner, Claudia Jarzebowski, Hans Medick, Barbara Lawatsch Melton, Christopher Ocker, Helmut Puff, Thomas Max Safley, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Lynne Tatlock, Mara Wade, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Bethany Wiggin.