204 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Unburnt Books: Early Modern Lutheran Things
2. Narrative
3. Thing
4. Miracle
5. "Non cultus sed memoriae gratia"
Biography
Avner Shamir is Associate Professor at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen.
