Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany - Softcover

Sabean, David Warren

 
9780521347785: Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521347785 ISBN 13: 9780521347785
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

This book offers a substantial reassessment of peasant society and popular culture in early modern Europe. The book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life of the duchy of Württemberg in southwest Germany from 1580 and 1800, in which state authorities conducted a special investigation into local events. The cases and characters involved include peasants' refusal to celebrate church rituals; a self-proclaimed prophet who encountered an angel in his vineyard; a thirteen-year-old witch; a paranoid pastor; a murder; and the live burial of a village bull. Each case offers vivid insights into the state's attitude towards local communities and individuals, and the latter's conception of the state, as well as internal relations among the villagers. Throuhgout, the important but ambiguous role of the church and of religious ideology in the reformation and transformation of popular culture is made apparent.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521347785
ISBN 13 
9780521347785
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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Deutschland

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