Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany (Past and Present Publications)
Cambridge University Press, 10/17/2002
EAN 9780521650106, ISBN10: 0521650100
Hardcover, 328 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in German, translated by Pamela E. Selwyn
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.
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.