Essays from papers presented at fifth triennial conference of Fruhe Neuzeit Interdisziplinar (FNI), held at Duke University, March 27-29, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-462) and index.

The Thirty Years' War as experience and memory : contemporary perceptions of a macro-historical event / Hans Medick -- Vanitas, vanitatum, et omnia vanitas : the Baroque transience topos and its structural relation to trauma / Claudia Benthien -- Dürer's losses and the dilemmas of being / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Memento mori, memento mei : Albrecht Dürer and the art of dying / Helmut Puff -- Enduring loss and memorializing women : the cultural role of dynastic widows in early modern Germany / Jill Bepler -- Paper monuments and the creation of memory : the personal and dynastic mourning of Princess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony / Mara R. Wade -- Loss and emotion in funeral works on children in seventeenth-century Germany / Claudia Jarzebowski -- Enduring death in pietism : regulating mourning and the new intimacy / Ulrike Gleixner -- Between the old faith and the new : spiritual loss in Reformation Germany / Christopher Ocker -- Loss and gain in a Salzburg convent : Tridentine reform, princely absolutism, and the nuns of Nonnberg (1620 to 1696) / Barbara Lawatsch Melton -- Themes of exile and (re- )enclosure in music for the Franciscan convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years' War / Alexander J. Fisher -- Locating the sacred in biconfessional Augsburg / Lee Palmer Wandel -- Losing one's place : memory, history, and space in post-Reformation Germany / Duane J. Corpis -- Migration and the loss of spiritual community : the case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schuchart / Rosalind J. Beiler -- Forecasting loss : Christoph Saur's Pennsylvania German calender (1751 to 1757) / Bethany Wiggin -- After the fall : the dynamics of social death and rebirth in the wake of the Höchstetter bankruptcy, 1529 to 1586 / Thomas Max Safley.

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