Power in the blood
Subtitle: popular culture and village discourse in early modern Germany
By: David Warren Sabean.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Württemberg (Germany) -- Religious life and customs; Württemberg (Germany) -- Social life and customs; Neckarhausen (Nürtingen, Germany) -- Religious life and customs; Neckarhausen (Nürtingen, Germany) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations
pagenum: viii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction.  Perspectives on the analysis of early modern state practice
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Communion and community: The refusal to attend the Lord's Supper in the sixteenth century
pagenum: 37; label: 2
title: A prophet in the Thirty Years' War:  Penance as a social metaphor
pagenum: 61; label: 3
title: The sacred bond of unity: Community through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old witch (1683)
pagenum: 94; label: 4
title: Blasphemy, adultery and persecution:  Paranoia in the pulpit (1969-1710)
pagenum: 113; label: 5
title: The conscience of the poor:  A village detective story (1733-43)
pagenum: 144; label: 6
title: The sins of belief:  A village remedy for hoof and mouth disease (1796)
pagenum: 174; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 199; title: Notes
pagenum: 214; title: Glossary
pagenum: 238; title: General Index
pagenum: 241; title: Index of Places
pagenum: 249