Kalender und Literatur in der frühen Neuzeit (16. und 17. Jahrhundert)

Abstract

"In the early modern period, the calendrical diary became one of the most prominent media and generated a completely new cultural practice of calendar writing. This also impacted contemporary literature: even beyond calendars, numerous texts were organised and written following the style of calendars. This study is the first to analyse these calendrical traces in early modern literature. For this purpose, a material culture studies approach is chosen: The literary analyses is based on the calendrical diary, its particular materiality and the practices associated with it. In this way, new categories of analysis are gained, with which the heuristic potential of the calendar is demonstrated in early modern texts of various genres."-- Provided by publisher.