Prayer in the Denominations and the Media of the Early Modern Period The volume contains exemplary case studies on prayer which is one of the basic forms of expression of the Christian faith and has been from the beginning an intermedial phenomenon. Biblical scholars and historians of theology, literature and art explore the denominational and medial spectrum of the phenomenon "prayer" on the basis of outstanding monuments of scholarship, piety and artistic production. A special interest lies among others on the interlacing of heterogeneous medial genres, for example on the visio-verbal conception of piety in literature with woodcuts and copper engravings which has been common and particularly strong in the 17th century and contributed to an imagination with impacts on the affections and helped to create memory.