Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521650106)

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 Foreward 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.

Author: Norbert Schindler
ISBN-10: 0521650100
ISBN-13: 9780521650106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2002
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d