1500-1750

Colonialism and the ‘New World’

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Cultural encounters and exchange 

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

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).

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 

• Martin Luther, Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen (1530) (D | E)

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 

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• Jakob Wimpfeling, Stylpho (1480) (L – with an introduction in D)
• Johannes Reuchlin, Henno (1497) (L)
• Pamphilus Gengenbach, Die zehn alter dieser Welt (1515) (D)
• Pamphilus Gengenbach, Gäuchmatt (1516) (D)
• Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig

Dramatic and Theatrical Theory

Women, writing and the arts

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