Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Baron, Frank

Title Faustus on trial : the origins of Johann Spies's "Historia" in an age of witch hunting / Frank Baron
Published Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 1992

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations
Series Frühe Neuzeit, 0934-5531 ; Bd. 9
Frühe Neuzeit ; Bd. 9.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Career of Johann Spies -- 1. Beginnings in Oberursel and Frankfurt -- 2. Printing in Heidelberg and Frankfurt for the Pure and True Religion -- 3. Problems of a Best Seller: Censorship and Piracy -- 4. Years of Promise and Disillusionment -- 5. Johann Spies: The Man behind the Historia -- II. The Making of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten -- 1. Compilation and Composition -- 2. The Emergence of the Faustian Pact -- 3. The Trial of Faustus. The Legacy of Witches and Learned Magicians -- 4. Dissonances and Unity in the Historia -- 5. The Contributions of Johann Spies to the Historia -- III. Appendix -- 1. The German Prefaces and Letters of Johann Spies -- 2. The Works Published and Printed by Johann Spies -- 3. Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations
Bibliography "Works published and printed by Johann Spies": pages 192-209
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-224) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Print version record
Subject Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Folklore -- History and criticism
Spies, Johann, approximately 1540-1623.
SUBJECT Faust, -approximately 1540 fast
Spies, Johann, approximately 1540-1623 fast
Spies, Johann. swd
Historia von Doctor Johann Fausten. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84153192
Historia von Doctor Johann Fausten fast
Faust Volksbuch gnd
Subject Publishers and publishing -- Germany -- Biography
Booksellers and bookselling -- Germany -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Booksellers and bookselling
Folklore
Publishers and publishing
Entstehung
Faustmotief.
Historia von Johann Fausten (anoniem)
Boekdrukkunst.
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110930061
3110930064