Sunday, January 28, 2007

BOOK: Cornelia Niekus Moore, Patterned Lives

Just out: Cornelia Moore's latest, a study of biographical writing as presented in sixteenth and seventeenth century evangelical funeral sermons. The result of years of work at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Moore's book defines the genre, discusses its origins and disappearances, and considers its context in noble, civic and monarchic culture.

Niekus Moore, Cornelia. Patterned Lives: The Lutheran Funeral Biography in Early Modern Germany. 403 pp., 33 illustrations. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. ISBN10: 3-447-05429-8 ISBN13: 978-3-447-05429-4.