This anthology assembles cross-disciplinary perspectives on the experience of and responses to forms of material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany, tracing how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of such events as war, religious reform, bankruptcy, religious marginalization, the death of spouses and children, and the loss of freedom of movement through a spectrum of activities including writing poetry, keeping diaries, erecting monuments, collecting books, singing, painting, reconfiguring space, repeatedly migrating, and painting, and thereby not only...

Wenn jede Begrenzung bereits ihre Entgrenzung enthält, welche ästhetischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Phänomene entstehen dann im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung?