Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in a Nineteenth-Century German Village
"This highly original and elegantly written work is full of human interest and pregnant with implications for the history of Germany, of religion, and of rural society in general... Its scholarship is impeccable... It deserves to reach as wide a readership as the most celebrated historical study of a single village: Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. Unlike Montaillou, which was essentially based on the fortuitous survival of a single investigation, Marpingen rests on a wide variety of sources, ecclesiastical and lay. Its richness of texture results from constant, though subtle, shifts of perspective. The book illuminates the 'peculiarities of German history,' a subject on which Blackbourn has written brilliantly before."-- Daniel Johnson, The Times, LondonFrom the Hardcover edition.