Early New High German literature

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The opening page of the Book of Genesis in Martin Luther's Bible translation of 1534, published by Hans Luft

Early New High German literature refers to literature written in German between the middle of the 14th century and the middle of the 17th. The term Early Modern German literature is also used to cover all or part of the same period.[1]

The fundamental development from Middle High German literature was

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the giving up of a small range of literary subjects which had been of vital interest to a chivalrous society electic in its tastes, and the adoption of a wider, more complex, range of subjects interesting a wider public which was not chivalrous but citizen.[2]

Key authors and works

Frontispiece of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten, published in 1587 by Johann Spies

Authors

Anonymous works

See also

Notes

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Sources

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External links



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  1. Reinhart 2007.
  2. Brooke 1955, p. xiii.