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Informationen zum Autor Helmut Puff is Professor of German and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ulrike Strasser is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Christopher Wild is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Associate Faculty in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Contrary to the historiographical commonplace “no Reformation without print” Cultures of Communication examines media in the early modern world through the lens of the period’s religious history. Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication. The authors assembled here urge us to understand the Reformation as a response to the perceived crisis of religious communication in late medieval Europe. In addition, they explore the novel demands placed on European media ecology by the acceleration and intensification of global interconnectedness in the early modern period. As the Christian evangelizing impulse began to propel growing numbers of Europeans outward to the Americas and Asia, theories and practices of religious communication had to be reformed to accommodate an array of new communicative constellations – across distances, languages, cultures. Zusammenfassung Looking beyond the emergence of print! this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Cultures of Communication, Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond Christopher Wild and Ulrike Strasser The Absolute Medium: Nicholas of Cusa on the Mediality of Christ Christian Kiening Fragmentation and Presence: Reformation Debates and Cultural Theory Lee Palmer Wandel ‘Here I Stand’: Face-to-Face Communication and Print Media in the Early Reformation Marcus Sandl Mediated Immediacies in Thomas Müntzer’s Theology Helmut Puff ‘Sing unto the Lord’: An Anthropology of Singing and Not-Singing in the Late Reformation Era Susan C. Karant-Nunn Reading Images, Printing Voices: Simulation of Media and Epistemic Reflection in German Baroque Literature Daniel Weidner Divine Messengers and Divine Messages: Angelic Media in Early Modern Hispanic America Andrew Redden On Reading Missionary Correspondence: Jesuit Theologians on the Spiritual Benefits of a New Genre Markus Friedrich Early Modern Translation Theories as Mission Theories: A Case Study of José de Acosta: De procuranda indorum salute (1588) Renate Dürr Apocalyptic Times in a ‘World without End’: The Straits of Magellan around 1600 Susanna Burghartz ...
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Helmut Puff is Professor of German and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Ulrike Strasser is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
Christopher Wild is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Associate Faculty in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
