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Language Key: ENHG: Early New High German; L: Latin; MLG: Middle Low German; NHG: New High German
Colonialism and the ‘New World’
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Cultural encounters and exchange
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Primary materials
- S.N. Fortunatus (1509) (HG | E)
Contact with the Islamic world
- Silke Falkner, ‘Perverted Spaces: Boundary Negotiations in Early-Modern Turcica’ in James Hodkinson and Jeffrey Morrison (eds), Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 55-72.
Scholarship

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Early Modern Christianity
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Martin Luther and the Reformation
Historical materials
- Martin Luther, An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation (1520) (D | E)
- Martin Luther, Von der babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche (1520) (D | E)
- Martin Luther, Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen (1520) (D | E)
- Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible into German can be accessed by following this link.
Scholarship
- C. Scott Dixon, The Reformation in Germany (Oxford 2002).
- Kaspar von Greyerz, ‘Switzerland’ in Robert Scribner, Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich (eds), The Reformation in National Context (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 30-46.
- Scott J. Hendrix, Martin Luther: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2010).
- Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel and L’ubomír Batka, The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology (Oxford, 2014).
- Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann, ‘Martin Luther, Bible Translation, and the German Language’ in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (2017).
- Donald K. McKim (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther (Cambridge, 2006).
- Bob Scribner, ‘Germany’ in Robert Scribner, Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich (eds), The Reformation in National Context (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 4-29.
The counter-reformation
Christian mysticism

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Jewish culture and writing
Scholarship
- Ruth Gay and Peter Gay, The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait (New Haven: 1992).
- Marion A. Kaplan (ed), Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 (Oxford, 2005).

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Linguistic diversity
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General reading
- ‘Early New High German (c.1350-1700)’ in Christopher Young and Thomas Gloning (eds), A History of the German Language Through Texts (Routledge: 2004)
- Peter von Polenz, Deutsche Sprachgeschichte: Vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart – Bd. 1 (’14. bis 16. Jahrhundert’) and Bd. 2 (’17. und 18. Jahrhundert’)
Writing in the vernacular
Regional Germans
Developing (German) traditions
- Martin Opitz, Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey (1624)
Race in the Early Modern period
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Primary materials
Scholarship
- Mischa Honeck, Matin Klimke and Anne Kuhlmann (eds), Germany and the Black Diaspora. Points of Contact, 1250-1914 (New York and Oxford: Berghain, 2013)
Reflecting on the Thirty Years’ War
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Primary Materials
- Geoff Mortimer, Eyewitness accounts of the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-48 (Palgrave, 2002).
Scholarship
- Geoffrey Parker, The Thirty Years’ War (Routledge, 1997)
- Peter H. Wilson, Europe’s Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years’ War (Penguin, 2010)
The Thirty Years’ War and Cultural Memory
- Bertolt Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1938/39; premiered 1941) (D | E)
- Alfred Döblin, Wallensetin (1920) (D | ?E)
- Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll (2017) (D | E)
- Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein (trilogy completed 1799) (D | E)

Early Modern sexuality and the body
Society and urbanisation
Staging the Early Modern
Women, writing and the arts
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