The Faustian Century – German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus

J. M. van der Laan, Andrew Weeks

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