Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Musical Examples -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Thirty Years' War as Experience and Memory: Contemporary Perceptions of a Macro-Historical Event -- Chapter Two Vanitas, Vanitatum, et Omnia Vanitas: The Baroque Transience Topos and its Structural Relation to Trauma -- Chapter Three Dürer's Losses and the Dilemmas of Being -- Chapter Four Memento Mori, Memento Mei: Albrecht Dürer and the Art of Dying -- Chapter Five Enduring Loss and Memorializing Women: The Cultural Role of Dynastic Widows in Early Modern Germany -- Chapter Six Paper Monuments and the Creation of Memory: The Personal and Dynastic Mourning of Princess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony -- Chapter Seven Loss and Emotion in Funeral Works on Children in Seventeenth-Century Germany -- Chapter Eight Enduring Death in Pietism: Regulating Mourning and the New Intimacy -- Chapter Nine Between the Old Faith and the New: Spiritual Loss in Reformation Germany -- Chapter Ten Loss and Gain in a Salzburg Convent: Tridentine Reform, Princely Absolutism, and the Nuns of Nonnberg (1620 to 1696) -- Chapter Eleven Themes of Exile and (Re-)Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation Munich During the Thirty Years' War -- Chapter Twelve Locating the Sacred in Biconfessional Augsburg -- Chapter Thirteen Losing One's Place: Memory, History, and Space in Post-Reformation Germany -- Chapter Fourteen Migration and the Loss of Spiritual Community: The Case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schuchart -- Chapter Fifteen Forecasting Loss: Christoph Saur's Pennsylvania German Calender (1751 to 1757) -- Chapter Sixteen After the Fall: The Dynamics of Social Death and Rebirth in the Wake of the Höchstetter Bankruptcy, 1529 to 1586 -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.