Patrick Nehr-Baseler
Sterbekunst als Selbstsorge zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft
Frühneuhochdeutsche artes moriendi in Augsburger Inkunabeln und Frühdrucken (1472–1519)
[The Art of Dying as Self-Care Between the Past and the Future. Early New High German artes moriendi in Augsburg Incunabula and Early Prints (1472-1519).]
2027. 450 pages. forthcoming in
January 2027
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How did people in the late Middle Ages view their future? Drawing on early New High German artes moriendi, Patrick Nehr-Baseler demonstrates that treatises on dying not only prepared readers for the afterlife but also opened up new perspectives on self-care - shaped by the contexts in which they were printed.