New article by Matthias Pohlig: "Das Jüngste Gericht als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet? Apokalyptische Perspektiven der Aufklärung" (The Last Judgement seen as a moral institution? Apocalyptic perspectives of the Enlightenment)
In the early modern period, the Last Judgement was given the greatest attention across all denominations and addressed in all available media – be it in literature, sacred music, the visual arts, or in theatre. This volume documents the results of an interdisciplinary conference organised in 2008 by the DFG Research Training Group "Interconfessionality in the Early Modern Period" at the University of Hamburg and the Wittenberg Research Library for the History of the Reformation which examined early modern reflections on the Last Judgement from the perspectives of historical theology, literary studies, art and music history, and history. Special attention is paid not only to the denomination-specific characteristics in dealing with the theme of judgement in its various media facets, but also to the question of how the interaction of different media determined the engagement with the iudicium extremum and its imminent coming.
Published in Das Jüngste Gericht in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit, edited by Johann Anselm Steiger and Ricarda Höffler (Göttingen, 2023), pp. 399-422.