Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands
Redaktion: Melton, James Van Horn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of 15 interdisciplinary essays is based on papers given at a conference at Duke University in 1998. Focusing on the territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the early Reformation to the mid-eighteenth century, the volume examines some of the structures, practices and media of communication that helped shape the social, cultural, and political history of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351946728
• Artikelnr.: 48419166

Autorenporträt

James Van Horn Melton

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, James Van Horn Melton; Violence and urban identity
in early modern Augsburg: communication strategies between authorities and
citizens in the adjudication of fights, B. Ann Tlusty; Patricide and
pathos: a 1565 murder in deed and word, Joy Wiltenburg; From public event
to publishing event: court funerals and the print medium in early modern
Germany, Jill Bepler; Anticlericalism in Bamberg on the eve of the
Peasants' War, William Bradford Smith; Anabaptist liars: communicating and
concealing the faith in early modern Tyrol, D. Jonathan Grieser; Preaching
and discipline: the case of 17th-century Rostock, Jonathan Strom; Debating
the meaning of pilgrimage: Maria Steinbach, 1733, Marc R. Forster; The
public of confessional identity: territorial church and church discipline
in 18th-century Hesse, Robert von Friedeburg; Conspiracy and denunciation:
a local affair and its European publics (Bern, 1749), Andreas Wÿrgler;
Garlic and the Jews: Jörg Breu the Elder's The Mocking of Christ as
Protestant "Thesenbild" or Catholic devotional image?, Andrew Morrall;
Standing by the ancient faith: Fribourg's fountains and the coming of the
Reformation, Donald A. McColl; Musical pedagogy in the German Renaissance,
Susan Forscher Weiss; "Not like the unreasoning beasts": rhetorical efforts
to separate humans and animals in early modern Germany, Susan C.
Karant-Nunn; Expanding the therapeutic canon: learned medicine listens to
folk medicine, Martha Baldwin; The debate between Johann Weyer and Thomas
Erastus on the punishment of witches, Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr.; Index.