Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-521-65010-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Past and Present Publications

When this volume first appeared in German it inspired a whole generation of young scholars. Schindler recreates the lives of both the poor and excluded; the milieu of the burghers; and the rumbustuous lifestyles of the Counts von Zimmern. A true archivist, he evokes the lost worlds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people. He investigates popular nicknames, snowball fights, carnival rituals, even what people did at night-time before the advent of lighting. A final essay deals with an extraordinary late set of trials for witchcraft, in which over 200 people died. Translated into English for the first time, the volume contains a new Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis and a new introductory essay setting out the key influences of Schindler's work. Norbert Schindler is the leading exponent of historical anthropology in the German-speaking world. A founding member of the German journal Historische Anthropologie, Schindler teaches at the University of Salzburg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schindler, Norbert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Selwyn, Pamela E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: revisiting the elusive quarry: popular culture in early modern Germany; 1. Habitus and lordship: the transformation of aristocratic practices of rule in the sixteenth century; 2. The world of nicknames: on the logic of popular nomenclature; 3. Carnival, church and the world turned upside-down: on the function of the culture of laughter in the sixteenth century; 4. 'Marriage weariness' and compulsory matrimony: the popular punishments of pulling the plough and the block; 5. Nocturnal disturbances: on the social history of the night in the early modern period; 6. The origins of heartlessness: the culture and way of life of beggars in late seventeenth-century Salzburg.

Über Autor(innen)

Selwyn, Pamela E.
Professor Norbert Schindler was born in 1950 in Chieming, Bavaria, and is the author of many influential books on popular culture in the early modern period. He has taught at University institutions in Berlin, Konstanz, Innsbruck, Basel, and Salzburg.