Cross-disciplinary perspectives on responses to material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany trace how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of deprivation through a spectrum of activities, often turning loss into gain and acquiring agency.

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Musical Examples Contributors Introduction, Lynne Tatlock 1. The Thirty Years' War as Experience and Memory: Contemporary Perceptions of a Macro-Historical Event, Hans Medick 2. Vanitas, vanitatum, et omnia vanitas: The Baroque Transience Topos and its Structural Relation to Trauma, Claudia Benthien 3. Durer's Losses and the Dilemmas of Being, Jeffrey Chipps Smith 4. Memento Mori, Memento Mei: Albrecht Durer and the Art of Dying, Helmut Puff 5. Enduring Loss and Memorializing Women: the Cultural Role of Dynastic Widows in Early Modern Germany, Jill Bepler 6. Paper Monuments and the Creation of Memory: The Personal and Dynastic Mourning of Princess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony, Mara Wade 7. Loss and Emotion in Funeral Works for Children in Early Modern History, Claudia Jarzebowski 8. Enduring Death in Pietism: Regulating Mourning and the New Intimacy, Ulrike Gleixner 9. Between the Old Faith and the New: Spiritual Loss in Reformation Germany, Christopher Ocker 10. Loss and Gain in a Salzburg Convent: The Impact of Tridentine Reform and Princely Absolutism on the Nuns of Nonnberg (1620 to1685), Barbara Lawatsch Melton 11. Themes of Exile and (Re-) Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years War, Alexander J. Fisher 12. Locating the Sacred in Biconfessional Augsburg, Lee Palmer Wandel 13. Losing One's Place: Memory, History, and Space in post-Reformation Germany, Duane J. Corpis 14. Migration and the Loss of Spiritual Community: The Case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schuchart, Rosalind J. Beiler 15. Forecasting Loss: Christoph Saur's German Calendar (1751 to1757), Bethany Wiggin 16. After the Fall: The Dynamics of Social Death and Rebirth in the Wake of the Hochstetter Bankruptcy, 1529 to 1586, Thomas Max Safley Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index