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Kunstværket
Denne bog belyser Danmarkshistoriens vigtigste personopgør: konflikten mellem Christian IV og Tycho Brahe. Det har altid været en gåde, hvad der fik astronomen til at forlade Danmark og hvad der forårsagede hans pludselige død i Prag. Svaret ligger gemt i gamle bøger og vil her blive fremlagt. Med udgangspunkt i den høje kviksølvkoncentration, som specialister har påvist i skæg og hår fra graven, redegøres der for den skjulte sammenhæng mellem forekomsten af det giftige tungmetal, den afdødes ærkefjende Mercurius, planeten Merkur, gudernes budbringer, hermetismens grundlægger og mordet på en sagnkonge. Ifølge eget udsagn blev Hamlets far forgivet med en helvedessaft, der jager gennem kroppens porte og gyder, som var den kviksølv. Øresundskrigen var et renæssancedrama med kosmologiske dimensioner, for i snæver bane omkring den unge solkonge kredsede der en ånd med uovertruffen kunstnerisk begavelse.
Staging History
Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Featuring prominently in this book are plays by, among others, John Bale, Jacob Schoepper, Johannes Agricola and Jacob Duym. Special attention is also paid to the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Dutch abele spelen. So far this topic has not received wide attention within the world of medieval and early Renaissance studies. This exploration aims at arousing more interest in this field by scholars working on European drama from the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science
In Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science, renowned astronomy expert Peter Usher expands upon his allegorical interpretation of Hamlet and analyzes four more plays, Love's Labour's Lost, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter's Tale. With painstaking thoroughness, he dissects the plays and reveals that, contrary to current belief, Shakespeare was well aware of the scientific revolutions of his time. Moreover, Shakespeare imbeds in the allegorical subtext information on the appearances of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars that he could not have known without telescopic aid, yet these plays appeared coeval with or prior to the commonly accepted date of 1610 for the invention and first use of the astronomical telescope. Dr. Usher argues that an early telescope, the so-called perspective glass, was the likely means for the acquisition of these data. This device was invented by the mathematician Leonard Digges, whose grandson of the same name contributed poems to the First and Second Folio editions of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science is an important addition to literature, history, and science collections as well as to personal libraries.
Heliocentri og Religionskrig
At påstå at jorden bevæger sig, og ikke er verdens centrum, var tåbeligt, filosofisk absurd og kættersk - mente inkvisitionens eksperter. Goethe mente, at ingen opdagelse har haft en større indflydelse på menneskets forestillinger end Kopernikus', og skrev: "Hvad skete der med Paradis? ... med troen på vore sanser? med den poetisk-religiøse tros sandhed?" efterhånden som flere og flere modtog tvivlens gave, forvandledes verden. Tvivl avler tolerance, men tolerancen lod vente på sig, og imens intensiveredes hekseforfølgelserne, og modreformationen søgte, med jesuitterne i spidsen, at tilbageerobre hvad der var tabt til protestanterne. Frankrig tæller 8 religionskrige, fra 1562 t...
Humanistische Antikenübersetzung und frühneuzeitliche Poetik in Deutschland (1450–1620)
Die Beiträge des Sammelbands untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen den deutschen Antikenübersetzungen des Zeitraums von 1450 bis 1620 und der frühneuzeitlichen Rhetorik und Poetik. Dabei wird der Beitrag der Übersetzungskultur, die unter dem Einfluss der humanistischen Bildungsbewegung entsteht, für die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache und Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit neu bestimmt.
Figurationen des Bösen im barocken Trauerspiel
The study deepens the understanding of 17th century literary and cultural production by reassessing the dramatic writing by Andreas Gryphius and Daniel Casper von Lohenstein as an aesthetics of evil avant la lettre. By locating evil inside its human protagonists, their plays respond to and were shaped by an anthropological shift from malus to malum in the early modern episteme, anticipating an internalization or even psychologization of evil, which until now has been claimed only for the 18th century onward.
Das Populäre
English summary: This volume is concerned with what has been characterized as popular (Dt.: das Populare) in German literature, culture and language. Popular is understood here in a sense close to its etymological origin, i.e. relating to ordinary people. This notion is relevant not only to writers or artists (one may think of the contrast between high culture and low culture / popular culture for instance), but also to all those who analyse the politics, the history, the culture and the language of modern, industrial societies. The papers collected in this book offer a global survey of the notion, emphasizing the interactions between the popular or folksy and the elitist elements found in l...
Artusroman und Mythos
Die Artusforschung dient der Erschließung der gemeinsamen kulturellen Grundlagen Europas mit Blick auf eines der erfolgreichsten epischen Genres des europäischen Mittelalters. Bald nach ihren Anfängen wurde die Artusliteratur zu einem Feld der überregionalen Wertediskussion, der kulturellen Identitätsfindung oder des literarischen Experiments. Diese Texte und ihre kulturhistorische Bedeutung beleuchten die Bände der Reihe SIA aus der Perspektive verschiedener Philologien, jeweils fokussiert auf einen aktuell in der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft diskutierten Begriff.
Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540
A critical reading of both literary and non-literary German texts published between 1490 and 1540 exposes a populist backlash against perceived social and political disruptions, the dramatic expansion of spatial and epistemological horizons, and the growth of global trade networks. These texts opposed the twin phenomena of pluralization and secularization, which promoted a Humanist tolerance for ambiguity, boosted globalization and spatial expansion around 1500, and promoted new ways of imagining the world. Part I considers threats to the political order and the protestations against them, above all a vigorous defense of the common good. Part II traces the intellectual and epistemological up...
Der Schwanritter
Die Sage um den Schwanritter gehört zu den weit verbreiteten mittelalterlichen Erzählstoffen, die bis heute nicht an Faszinationskraft verloren haben. Sie steht im Umfeld der Mahrtenehegeschichten und lässt sich als Gründungsmythos lesen, erhält ihr Signum durch die Kernmotive Gerichtskampf und Frageverbot. In der deutschen Literatur vor 1500 erfährt dieser Erzählstoff in den Werken Parzival, Der Schwanritter, Jüngerer Titurel, Lohengrin, Lorengel und Buch der Abenteuer Bearbeitung. Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die erste Monographie, die die gesamte deutsche vormoderne Werkreihe zum Schwanritter-Stoff zum Gegenstand hat und seine Transformation durch die Jahrhunderte verfolgt. Sie nimm...
