This volume explores two questions of interest to a larger intellectual community: (1) what constituted knoweldge in the context of early modern Germany and (2) how knowledge was gathered, assembled, organized, deployed, and interpreted. The perspective is interdisciplinary and the contributions represent several fields of scholarly inquiry.
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction: Ways of Knowing, Mary Lindemann Part I. Creating and Organizing Knowledge
1. Mad Mares and Wilful Women: Ways of Knowing Nature-and Gender-in Early Modern Hippological Texts, Pia F. Cuneo
2. From Insect to Icon: Joris Hoefnagel and the 'Screened Objects' of the Natural World, Janice L. Neri
3. The Management of Knowledge at the Electoral Court of Saxony in Dresden, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
4. Facts or Fiction: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Popular Literature, Elisabeth Waghall Nivre Part II. Evaluating and Using Knowledge
5. Are the Cranach Luther Altarpieces Philippist? Memory of Luther and Knowledge of the Past in the Late Reformation, Susan R. Boettcher
6. Medicine and Pastoral Care for the Dying in Protestant Germany, Mitchell Lewis Hammond
7. How to Do Things with God: Blasphemy in Early Modern Switzerland, Francisca Loetz
8. "Our Diligent Watchers and Informers": Official Surveillance, Private Denunciation, and the Limits of Authority in Sixteenth-Century Ulm, Jason Coy
9. The Eclipse of Usury: Bankruptcy and Business Morality in Eighteenth-Century Germany, Robert Beachy
10. Public Church Penance in Saxony, Terence McIntosh Index
