A behavioral ideal of French origin, gallantry is a vital concept for scholars researching the critical period around 1700. As an aesthetically determined ethic practiced by a court-influenced elite, gallant conduct was defined by the arts - and particularly by literature. That connection is the focus of this collection of cutting-edge articles. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, they investigate the tradition of gallantry beginning in the Middle Ages, its migration from France to Germany, and the continuity of its influence in the century of the Enlightenment.

Paul Fleming (1609-1640) gehort zu den bedeutenden Dichtern der Fruhen Neuzeit, schon seine Zeitgenossen haben ihn in einer Reihe mit Martin Opitz genannt. Der vorliegende Sammelband dokumentiert eine internationale Fachtagung aus Anlass seines 400. Geburtstags. Er versammelt Beitrage, die Flemings Werk dezidiert auf literaturgeschichtliche Traditionen und und kulturgeschichtliche Kontexte (darunter insbesondere politische, religiose und medizinische Diskurse) beziehen.

In keeping with the first two volumes in this series, this third volume of the Corpus Paracelsisticum aims to make an innovative contribution to the cultural history of early modernity through its social, scientific, and literary historical content. Edited with commentary and offering a Latin translation, this volume includes 75 texts written between 1569 and 1613.