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Book SynopsisHow 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.
Trade Review“Chloe has been conceived since 1984 as a book series of the journal Daphnis for in-depth interdisciplinary research on German literature and culture of the early modern period (14th-18th centuries). The series also deals with the relations of German literature to the European cultures of this period and phenomena of cultural transfer from a comparative perspective. The volumes, edited by renowned guest editors, explore thematically focused new fields of research, bundle the latest findings on important authors of the period and preserve the cultural heritage of this time through innovative renegotiations.” - Ulrich Seelbach, University Bielefeld, Germany
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Mara R. Wade Part 1: Transitions, Translations, Transformations 1 From Villain to Jokester: The Early Reception of the Ulenspiegel Figure Peter Hess 2 The Year 1663: Exploring Ambiguities in a Pamphlet about the Turk (Erasmus Francisci, 1627–1694) Gerhild Scholz Williams 3 The Translation of Horace’s Odes by Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz Victoria Gutsche 4 Cabeza de Vaca’s (Mostly) Non-Iberian Offspring: Images of the “Other” in (Some of) the Other European Accounts Dwight E. Raak TenHuisen Part 2: At Court and in Town: Text, Sound, and Image 5 Toward a Definition of Royalty: Images of Sophie Charlotte, First Queen in Prussia Sara Smart 6 German Nuptial Music in the Seventeenth Century: Sound in Service of the Sacred Janette Tilley 7 Emblematic Virtues: The Orations for Ferdinand Carl and Sigismund Franz, Archdukes of Tirol Cornelia Niekus Moore 8 The Concept of Heraldry in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German-Speaking Territories as Seen through the Lens of Printed Wappenbücher Kathleen Smith 9 Emblems in Motion: From the Altdorf Academy and the Nürnberg Town Hall to Sweden and the Colony of Pennsylvania Mara R. Wade Part 3: The Organization of Knowledge: Case Studies from the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 10 “Mit vielen Concepten und sittlichen Lehren unterspickt”: Bibliographic Approaches and the Ethics of Early Modern Literature Matthias Roick 11 Venice without Venice: Traces of Italian Printed Music in German Manuscripts during the Thirty Years’ War Jason Rosenholtz-Witt 12 Why Is Boccaccio’s Decameron in the Ethica Section of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel? Enrica Zanin Index
