List of Figures and Tables Introduction Hannah Murphy Part I: Textual Strategies: Plague and Print Chapter 1. Plague for a Popular Audience: Suspicions of Print in Late Fifteenth-Century Germany Christopher Hutchinson Chapter 2. The Ethics of Surviving Plague: Political, Social, and Moral Considerations in Sixteenth-Century German Plague Texts Peter Hess Chapter 3. Fighting Plague and Heresy in Early Modern Bavaria: The Confessionalization of Bavarian Plague Literature, 1521-1650 Erik A. Heinrichs Part II: Political Strategies: Rulers and City Councils Responding to Plague Chapter 4. Contagion and Control: City Ccouncils and the French Ppox in Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg, 1495-1510 Monica C. O'Brien Chapter 5. Tracing Sixteenth-Century Infection Chains in Central Germany Thomas Wozniak Chapter 6.

Handling Pestilence During the Thirty Years' War Sigrun Haude Chapter 7. Plague Control in the Absolutist Territorial State. Ideal and Reality in Electoral Hanover 1709-1716 Ulf Wendler Part III: Broader Academic and Social Responses to Plague Chapter 8. About What is Right in Times of Plague. Contagious Debates in Natural Philosophy, Medicine, Law, and Theology at the Academia Julia inUniversity of Helmstedt, 168183 Benjamin Wallura Chapter 9. Diseases as Threat to the Human and Animal World. Interdependencies of Early Modern Contagion Discourses in Central Europe Ansgar Schanbacher, Philip Knäble, and Malte de Vries Chapter 10. Plague Cemeteries in Early Modern German Towns Martin Christ Pandemics--Theirs and Ours.

An Afterword Peter Hess Bibliography Index.