Gerhild Williams

Titles

Barbara Schaps Thomas & David M. Thomas Professor of Humanities in Arts & Sciences

Titles

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature

Books 

Co-ed., with William Layher. Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1700. Amsterdam: Rodopi (Daphnis), 2009. Actes from the German Department Biennial Symposium.

Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. An investigation of how Praetorius, an assiduous reporter of early modern Europe, offered accounts of political events, scientific discoveries, occult phenomena, and religious beliefs that challeged many authoritative interpretations of his day.

Ed. On the Inconstancy of Witches. By Pierre de Lancre. 1612. Trans. Harriet Stone and Gerhild Scholz Williams. Tempe: Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. Comprehensive English edition of de Lancre's report of his experiences in France's Basque region as a member of a royal commission empowered to cleanse the area of witches.

Co-ed., with Chad Gunnoe, Jr. Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe. Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2003. Collection of essays exploring the intellectual, social, and cultural context within which physician Theophrastus Paracelsus wrote.

Co-author, with Alexander Schwarz. Existentielle Vergeblichkeit: Verträge in Melusine, Faust, und Eulenspiegel [The Futility of Existence: Contracts in Melusine, Faust, and Eulenspiegel.] Berlin: Schmidt, 2003. An exploration of pacts and contracts in three popular early modern prose texts through a focus on narrative structure.