Caroline Huey: Hans Folz and Print Culture in Late Medieval Germany: The Creation of Popular Discourse: Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2012, xvii, 166 pp., 42 b/w illustrations, Hardcover, $89.96, ISBN 978-1-4094-06068

Pub Res Q (2012) 28:371372 DOI 10.1007/s12109-012-9289-9 Caroline Huey: Hans Folz and Print Culture in Late Medieval Germany: The Creation of Popular Discourse Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2012, xvii, 166 pp., 42 b/w illustrations, Hardcover, $89.96, ISBN 978-1-4094-06068 Albrecht Classen Published online: 18 September 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Although Hans Folz has been recognized as a major late medieval German poet and printer of his own works for some time now, Caroline Hueys monograph might well be the rst one in English to discuss this Nuremberg barbersurgeon, poet and printer. Apart from general comments here and there, Huey strangely at rst neglects to answer this question, although this would have been the critical concern justifying the entire project to bring Folz back to the A. Classen (&) Department of German Studies, University of Arizona, 301 Learning Services Building, 1512 East First Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USAe-mail: aclassen@email.arizona.edu 123 372 Pub Res Q (2012) 28:371372 modern awareness. In the third chapter she makes an attempt to illustrate how much the poet was dedicated to teaching his audience about the great need to coordinate body and mind in order to achieve happiness and health.