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The Reformation of Suffering
Protestant reformers sought to effect a radical change in the way their contemporaries understood and coped with the suffering of body and soul that were so prominent in the early modern period. This book examines the genesis of Protestant doctrines of suffering among the leading reformers and then traces the transmission of these doctrines from the reformers to the common clergy. It also examines the reception of these ideas by lay people.
Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater
Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the ways that it enacted them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies." In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.
Literatur und Kosmos
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Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany
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.
Women, Medicine and Theatre 1500–1750
Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical documents, including British, German and other European images, and literary as well as non-literary texts (many previously unconsidered in this context), this study offers the first interdisciplinary gendered assessment of early modern performing itinerant healers (mountebanks, charlatans and quacksalvers). As Katritzky shows, quacks, male or female, combined, in widely varying proportions, three elements: the medical, the itinerant and the theatrical. Above all, they were performers. They used theatricality, in its widest possible sense, to attract customers and to promote and advertise their pharmac...
Witwen
Diese interdisziplinäre Untersuchung erschließt den Inhalt nur in historischen Publikationen erhaltener und bisher kaum erforschter Texte für den Witwenstand: Witwenspiegel, Gebetbücher, Traktate und Predigten. Deren Verfasser waren vor allem Theologen, die das Verhalten von Witwen innerhalb der Gesellschaft beeinflussen, ihnen aber zugleich Lebenshilfe und Trost bieten wollten. Die literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse ergänzt eine mikrohistorische Studie zu den Lebensverhältnissen von Witwen in Nürnberg. Diese informiert in Text und Bild über deren Berufe und Wohnorte, Trauerkleidung und Rechtsverhältnisse sowie Maßnahmen zur Armenfürsorge vor der Einführung von Witwenkassen. Vielfältige kulturhistorische Dokumente belegen die bisher unterschätzte Stiftungspraxis von Witwen. Briefe und Selbstzeugnisse von Nürnberger Patrizierinnen oder Pfarrwitwen vermitteln facettenreiche, lebensnahe Eindrücke der Chancen und Probleme des Lebens im Witwenstand.
The Cambridge World History
The most comprehensive account yet of the human past from prehistory to the present.
The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg
Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander
