Ein Jrdisch Paradeiß

The book offers new insights into the work of the celebrated German Baroque Poet Sibylla Schwarz through a process of multiple careful contextualizations. Drawing on the disciplines of music and theatre history, as well as philology, theology and the history of medicine, it helps to correct errors and open up new avenues in the field of Schwarz scholarship. Moving outwards from the various ways in which the biblical notion of paradise figures in her work (as garden, arcadia, metaphysical marriage bed), it revisits her life and work in the light of the practices and discourses of the time, offers comparisons with contemporary authors of other nationalities and with later German-language writers; and thus places the poet at the centre of a series of interlocking spatio-temporal networks.