Corpus Paracelsisticum
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Edited by:
Wilhelm Kühlmann
This is the first installment of a body of documentation extending to four volumes on the origins and dissemination of Paracelsianism and its roots in the controversial interrelations between science, literature and the history of late 16th century society. The critical edition of texts casting new light on this question and frequently breaking hitherto unknown terrain is accompanied by detailed commentaries and biographical material on the instigators, addressees, opponents and sympathizers of the Paracelsian reform and protest movement.
The second volume of the »Corpus Paracelsisticum« provides access to the wide-ranging oeuvre of Michael Toxites and Gerhard Dorn, two highly influential founder figures in the history of upper Rhenish Paracelsianism. From there, the purview extends across confessional boundaries to other cultural centers, in Bavaria, Saxony, Silesia, Bohemia, and the lower Rhine. Consideration of writers like G. Fedro, M. Ambrosius, L. Span, B. Flöter, G. Etschenrutter, B. Scultetus, P. Perna, T. Zwinger, and J. Albrecht opens up a perspective on an extremely wide-ranging discourse network of epochal significance. Alongside the commentary with its indications for further reading, the volume has a detailed introduction, a number of indexes, and historical summaries on the scholarly significance of each of the corpora devoted to a specific author.
In keeping with the first two volumes in this series, this third volume of the Corpus Paracelsisticum aims to make an innovative contribution to the cultural history of early modernity through its social, scientific, and literary historical content. Edited with commentary and offering a Latin translation, this volume includes 75 texts written between 1569 and 1613.
