Collections and Books, Images and Texts: Early Modern German Cultures of the Book

Mara R. Wade

ISBN 10: 9004681728 / ISBN 13: 9789004681729

Published by Brill Sep 2023, 2023

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Neuware - How did German composers brand their music as Venetian How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza's Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden What does Virtue look like in a library collection And what was Boccaccio's Decameron doing in the Ethica section From representations of Sophie Charlotte, the first queen in Prussia, to the Ottoman Turks, from German wedding music to Till Eulenspiegel, from the translation of Horatian Odes and encyclopedias of heraldry, these essays by leading scholars explore the transmission, translation, and organization of knowledge in early modern Germany, contributing sophisticated insights to the history of the early modern book and its contents.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collections and Books, Images and Texts: Early Modern German Cultures of the Book
• Publisher: Brill Sep 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004681728
• ISBN 13: 9789004681729
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 18D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 576 grams

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Synopsis

How did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza’s Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden? What does Virtue look like in a library collection? And what was Boccaccio’s Decameron doing in the Ethica section? From representations of Sophie Charlotte, the first queen in Prussia, to the Ottoman Turks, from German wedding music to Till Eulenspiegel, from the translation of Horatian Odes and encyclopedias of heraldry, these essays by leading scholars explore the transmission, translation, and organization of knowledge in early modern Germany, contributing sophisticated insights to the history of the early modern book and its contents.

About the Author

Mara R. Wade is professor emerita of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the immediate past president of the Renaissance Society of America. She earned the Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the supervision of Professor Gerhard Dünnhaupt. Her research focuses on emblems, digital humanities, court studies of Germany and Scandinavia, gender studies, and German literature and the arts in the early modern period. She is an associate editor of Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image, having served until January 2023 as Editor in Chief. She is is the PI for Emblematica Online. She was a Getty Scholar 2018-2019 and a Newberry Library fellow 2016-2017; she holds a senior research prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was also awarded the prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois.