The cultural history of a city between the Late Middle Ages and the Thirty Years WarThis book contains 19 essays on the cultural history of Augsburg in the 15th and 16th centuries. During this period Augsburg was one of the cities in Germany in which humanism and the art of the Renaissance found their earliest and most intensive reception. In line with new approaches to cultural history and the concept of humanism, the book illuminates the reception of the two paradigms as phenomena which were evident in the entire culture of the city. Taken together, the findings of this study present for the first time a complete panorama of Augsburg culture in the 15th and 16th centuries.