In 16 essays, historians and scholars of literature consider visual and literary representations of subtle bodies in this world and the other. They consider such examples as Jan Breughel's Poetic Hell
These 19 articles (seven in English, the others in German) emerged from the eponymous 2004 conference at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Exploring the ways the Gutenberg Revolution transformed the organ
The volume articles examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual and visual transformati