5: Faust from Cipher to Sign and Pious to Profane

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Faust Scholarship and the Project at Hand 1
6. 1: The German Faustian Century 17
7. 2: Faustus of the Sixteenth Century: His Life, Legend, and Myth 43
8. 3: Cornelius Agrippa’s Double Presence in the Faustian Century 67
9. 4: Converging Magical Legends: Faustus, Paracelsus, and Trithemius 93
10. 5: Faust from Cipher to Sign and Pious to Profane 125
11. 6: The Aesthetics of the 1587 Spies Historia von D. Johann Fausten 149
12. 7: The Lutheran Faust: Repentance in the Augsburg Confession and the German Faustbuch 177
13. 8: Marriage in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587) 197
14. 9: Antiauthoritarianism and the Problem of Knowledge in the Faustbuch 215
15. 10: Exploring the “Three-Fold World”: Faust as Alchemist, Astrologer, and Magician 241
16. 11: The Devil in the Early Modern World and in Sixteenth-Century German Devil Literature 257
17. 12: Encounters with “Schwarz-Hans”: Jacob Böhme and the Literature of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century 285
18. 13: D. Johann Faust and the Cannibals: Geographic Horizons in the Sixteenth Century 305
19. A Sixteenth-Century Chronology of Significant References to Faust with Parallel World Events 337
20. Select Bibliography 361
21. Contributors 381
22. Index 383