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.
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.
