Edited and with an introduction by Max Reinhart, University of Georgia, USA

'Reinhart's book is a skillfully edited work with provocative and wide-ranging meditations on early modern literature. It will inspire scholarship across disciplines and contribute substantially to the study of the early modern period.' German Studies Review

• Contents: Editor's Introduction; Prophecy, love and law: visions of peace from Isaiah to Kant (and beyond); ’Your arts shall be: to impose the ways of peace’ - tolerance, liberty, and the nation in the literature and deeds of Humanism; The republic of letters and the absolutist state: nine theses; Paris, capital of European late Humanism: Jacques Auguste de Thou and the Cabinet Dupuy; Utopia and the green world: critique and anticipation in pastoral poetry; Nuremberg, Arcadia on the Pegnitz: the self-stylization of an urban sodality; Begin with Goethe? Forgotten traditions at the threshold of the modern age; Bibliographical note on the essays; About the translators; Index.

Edited and with an introduction by Max Reinhart, University of Georgia, USA

'Reinhart's book is a skillfully edited work with provocative and wide-ranging meditations on early modern literature. It will inspire scholarship across disciplines and contribute substantially to the study of the early modern period.' German Studies Review

• Contents: Editor's Introduction; Prophecy, love and law: visions of peace from Isaiah to Kant (and beyond); ’Your arts shall be: to impose the ways of peace’ - tolerance, liberty, and the nation in the literature and deeds of Humanism; The republic of letters and the absolutist state: nine theses; Paris, capital of European late Humanism: Jacques Auguste de Thou and the Cabinet Dupuy; Utopia and the green world: critique and anticipation in pastoral poetry; Nuremberg, Arcadia on the Pegnitz: the self-stylization of an urban sodality; Begin with Goethe? Forgotten traditions at the threshold of the modern age; Bibliographical note on the essays; About the translators; Index.

Edited and with an introduction by Max Reinhart, University of Georgia, USA

'Reinhart's book is a skillfully edited work with provocative and wide-ranging meditations on early modern literature. It will inspire scholarship across disciplines and contribute substantially to the study of the early modern period.' German Studies Review

• Contents: Editor's Introduction; Prophecy, love and law: visions of peace from Isaiah to Kant (and beyond); ’Your arts shall be: to impose the ways of peace’ - tolerance, liberty, and the nation in the literature and deeds of Humanism; The republic of letters and the absolutist state: nine theses; Paris, capital of European late Humanism: Jacques Auguste de Thou and the Cabinet Dupuy; Utopia and the green world: critique and anticipation in pastoral poetry; Nuremberg, Arcadia on the Pegnitz: the self-stylization of an urban sodality; Begin with Goethe? Forgotten traditions at the threshold of the modern age; Bibliographical note on the essays; About the translators; Index.