J. M. van der Laan, Andrew Weeks

New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the sixteenth century its distinct character.

Introduction: Faust Scholarship and the Project at Hand - James M. van der Laan
The German Faustian Century - Andrew Weeks
Faustus of the Sixteenth Century: His Life, Legend, and Myth - Frank Baron
Cornelius Agrippa's Double Presence in the Faustian Century - Michael Keefer
Converging Magical Legends: Faustus, Paracelsus, and Trithemius - Urs Leo Gantenbein
Faust from Cipher to Sign and Pious to Profane - James M. van der Laan
The Aesthetics of the 1587 Spies Historia von D. Johann Fausten - Marguerite de Huszar Allen
The Lutheran Faust: Repentance in the Augsburg Confession and the German Faustbuch - Kresten Thue Andersen
Marriage in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587) - Paul Ernst Meyer
Antiauthoritarianism and the Problem of Knowledge in the Faustbuch - Andrew Weeks
Exploring the "Three-Fold World": Faust as Alchemist, Astrologer, and Magician - Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
The Devil in the Early Modern World and in Sixteenth-Century German Devil Literature - Albrecht Classen
Encounters with "Schwarz-Hanz": Jacob Böhme and the Literature of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century - Günther Bonheim
D. Johann Faust and the Cannibals: Geographic Horizons in the Sixteenth Century - Karl S. Guthke
A Sixteenth-Century Chronology of Significant References to Faust with Parallel World Events
Select Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index