Pathbreaking volume providing a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of the literature of this 350-year period and its cultural and historical background.

Introduction - Max Reinhart
Frühe Neuzeit-- Early Modernity: Reflections on a New Category of Literary History - Klaus Garber
German Literature of the Middle Period: Working with the Sources - Hans-Gert Roloff
Literary Transitions, 1300-1500: From Late Medieval to Early Modern - R. Graeme Dunphy
The Evolution of Modern Standard German - Renate Born
Education in Early Modern Germany - Wilhelm Kuehlmann
The Reformation Movement in Germany - Scott Dixon
Early Modern German Printing - Stephan Fussel
Poetics and Rhetorics in Early Modern Germany - Joachim Knape
Neo-Latin Literature in Early Modern Germany - Wilhelm Kuehlmann
Ad fontes: German Humanists as Editors and Translators - Erika Rummel
Early Modern German Drama, 1400-1700 - John Alexander
Poetry in Gemany, 1450-1700 - Peter Hess
Early Modern German Narrative Prose - Andreas Solbach
The Emblem and Emblematic Forms in Early Modern Germany - Peter M. Daly
The Pictorial Language of German Art, 1400-1650 - Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Eros in Early Modern German Literature - Gerhart Hoffmeister
Literature and the Court, 1450-1720 - Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Music in Early Modern Germany - Steven Saunders
Early Modern German Libraries and Collections - Jill Bepler
Travel Reports in Early Modern Germany - Wolfgang Neuber
Demonologies: Writing about Magic and Witchcraft - Gerhild Scholz Williams
Parallel Lives: Heinrich Steinhöwel, Albrecht von Eyb, and Niklas von Wyle - John L. Flood
Parallel Lives: Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Bucer - Laurel Carrington
Parallel Lives: Martin Opitz and Julius Wilhelm Zincgref - Theodor Verweyen
Parallel Lives: Sigmund von Birken and Duke Anton Ulrich - John Roger Paas
Women's Writing in the Context of Their Lives, 1520-1720 - Anna Carrdus