Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture

Christine Gottler is Associate Professor of the history of early modern European art at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her many publications include Die Kunst des Fegefeuers nach der Reformation (1996); forthcoming is her Last Things: Art and Religious Practice in the Age of Reform. Wolfgang Neuber is Professor of early modern German and Neolatin literature at the Free University in Berlin. He has published extensively on early modern travel accounts (including Fremde Welt im europaischen Horizont, 1991) and is currently preparing a book on spirits and spectres.