Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. The Career of Johann Spies
1. Beginnings in Oberursel and Frankfurt
2. Printing in Heidelberg and Frankfurt for the Pure and True Religion
3. Problems of a Best Seller: Censorship and Piracy
4. Years of Promise and Disillusionment
5. Johann Spies: The Man behind the Historia
II. The Making of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten
1. Compilation and Composition
2. The Emergence of the Faustian Pact
3. The Trial of Faustus. The Legacy of Witches and Learned Magicians
4. Dissonances and Unity in the Historia
5. The Contributions of Johann Spies to the Historia
III. Appendix
1. The German Prefaces and Letters of Johann Spies
2. The Works Published and Printed by Johann Spies
3. Bibliography
Index
Illustrations