UID:
almahu_9949384303602882
Format:
1 online resource (196 pages)
ISBN:
9780429055171
,
042905517X
,
9780429619595
,
0429619596
,
9780429621741
,
0429621744
,
9780429617447
,
0429617445
Series Statement:
Routledge research in early modern history
Content:
This book discusses the early modern engagement with books that survived intentional or accidental fire in Lutheran Germany. From the 1620s until the middle of the eighteenth century, unburnt books became an attraction for princes, publishers, clergymen, and some laymen. To cope with an event that seemed counter-intuitive and possibly supernatural, contemporaries preserved these books, narrated their survival, and discussed their significance. This book demonstrates how early modern Europeans, no longer bound to traditional medieval religion, yet not accustomed to modern scientific ways of thinking, engaged with a natural phenomenon that was not uncommon and yet seemed to defy common sense.
Note:
Unburnt books: early modern Lutheran things -- Narrative -- Thing -- Miracle -- Non cultus sed memoriae gratia.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Shamir, Avner. Incombustible Lutheran books in early modern Germany. New York : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367151201
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
;
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429055171
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429055171
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