Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Faust scholarship and the project at hand / J.M. van der Laan -- The German Faustian Century / Andrew Weeks -- Faustus of the Sixteenth Century : his life, legend, and myth / Frank Baron -- Cornelius Agrippa's double presence in the Faustian Century / Michael Keefer -- Converging magical legends: Faustus, Paracelsus, and Trithemius / Urs Leo Gantenbein -- Faust from cipher to sign and pious to profane / J.M. van der Laan -- The aesthetics of the 1587 Spies Historia von D. Johann Fausten / Marguerite de Huszar Allen -- The Lutheran Faust : repentance in the Augsburg Confession and the German Faustbuch / Kresten Thue Andersen -- Marriage in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587) / Paul Ernst Meyer -- Antiauthoritarianism and the problem of knowledge in the Faustbuch / Andrew Weeks -- Exploring the "Three-Fold World": Faust as alchemist, astrologer, and magician / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- The Devil in the Early Modern World and in Sixteenth-Century German Devil Literature / Albrecht Classen -- Encounters with "Schwarz-Hans": Jacob Bohme and the Literature of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century / G�unther Bonheim -- D. Johann Faust and the cannibals: geographic horizons in the Sixteenth Century / Karl S. Guthke -- A Sixteenth-Century chronology of significant references to Faust with parallel world events.

"This volume investigates and illumines the German sixteenth century--the age of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Faust. Bringing old and new research together, this book structures its study of that era around the figure of Faust. The stories about him address a number of definitive issues for his century, in particular, the intersection of Renaissance humanism and Reformation theology, the practice of magic and diabolism, the interplay of fact and fantasy, the juxtaposition of good and evil (or of the spirit and the world), and the submission to or transgression of the moral code"--Provided by publisher.

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