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The work, of which the present volume is the first instalment, aims at giving English readers a general view of the social condition and the popular movements of Germany during the period known as that of the Reformation. In accordance with this plan, I have only touched incidentally upon the theological disputes then apparently uppermost in the thoughts of men, or upon the purely political side of things. They are dealt with merely in so far as they immediately strike across the path of social and internal affairs. The present volume, which has a more general character than its successors, deals with a period limited, roughly speaking, by the closing years of the fifteenth century on the one side, and by 1525, the year of the great Peasant rising, on the other. It contains a narrative of the earlier popular revolutionary movements at the close of the Middle Ages, the precursors of the Peasants' War; and it also deals with the underlying causes, economic, social and juridical, of the general disintegration of the time.
Ernest Belfort's book "German Society on the Close of the Middle Ages" Bax gives a radical assessment of Germany's social, political, and cultural milieu in the course of the past due medieval length. Bax delves exhaustively into many aspects of German tradition, supplying perception on the norms, traditions, and institutions that impacted the lives of its residents in the course of this momentous length. Bax's painstaking research and perceptive evaluation offer a sensible illustration of medieval Germany's social hierarchy, monetary shape, and spiritual dynamics. He discusses feudalism, urbanization, guilds, and the position of women, giving readers an advanced hold close of medieval socie...
Articles on early Hebrew printing encompassing title-page motifs and entitling books; authors and places of publication including books opposed to gambling, on philology, and the massacres of tah-ve-tat (1648-48); small diverse places of printing; and on Christian-Hebraism.
This book examines Christian ethnographic writing about the Jews in early modern Europe, offering a systematic historical analysis of this literary genre and arguing its importance for better understanding both the period in general and Jewish-Christian relations in particular. The book focuses on nearly 80 texts from Western Europe (mostly Germany) that describe the customs and ceremonies of the contemporary Jews, containing both descriptions and illustrations of their subjects. Deutsch is one of the first scholars to study these unique writings in extensive detail. He examines books in which Christian authors describe Jewish life and provides new interpretations of Christian perceptions of...
What is "church"? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory recently, with internal factions, external pressures, and ecumenical turmoil all calling for a more positive, studier, more resilient notion of Christian community. Wengert approaches the questions as a Reformation historian. He shows how the New Testament notion of "marks" of the church was taken up by Luther and developed by Melanchthon not as descriptive tag but as a criterion for authenticity in Christian community. Lathrop, the liturgical theologian, shows concretely how those marks can stamp the worship life of a congregation as well as the evaluative work of congregations with their pastors, bishops, superintendents, and conference ministers. Only with a sturdy sense of their own identity--as a holy people, grounded in common practices and commitments--can Christian assemblies truly engage and even transform today's cultural context. This volume originated as six lectures jointly presented to the Academy of Bishops of the ELCA in 2001.
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Im Grenzbereich zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft ist das Konzept einer narrativen Heilpädagogik angesiedelt: Während es in der Heil- und Sonderpädagogik um Praxis und Theorie von Bildung und Erziehung unter erschwerten Bedingungen geht, schildern literarische Texte erzählter Behinderung Erfahrungen von Personen mit besonderen Bedürfnissen. Das Zusammenleben von Betroffenen und ihren Angehörigen, von Beteiligten und Aussenstehenden, von Bezugs- und Fachpersonen ist charakterisiert durch Vielfalt wie durch Einmaligkeit und entzieht sich verallgemeinernden Aussagen, wie sie für wissenschaftliche Texte charakteristisch sind; literarische Texte vermitteln im Gegensatz dazu individuelle Erfahrungen von Personen in ihrer Komplexität, stellen sie in einen Erzählkontext und gewinnen dadurch Authentizität und Differenziertheit. Erzählte Behinderung erschliesst Lebenssituationen von Menschen mit Behinderung; Grundlagen und Beispiele dazu vermittelt die einführende Darstellung narrativer Heilpädagogik.
A study of Protestant and Catholic pamphlets published in Strasbourg during the early years of the Reformation looks at Martin Luther's use of the recently invented printing press and his dominance of the new medium.