Rebellion, community and custom in early modern Germany
By: Norbert Schindler ; translated by Pamela E. Selwyn.
Series: Past and present publications
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Popular culture -- History.; Social history.; Europe -- Social conditions.; Germany -- History -- 1517-1648.; Germany -- History -- 1648-1740.; Germany -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.; Germany -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Notes: German ed. originally published: Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Taschenbuch, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Revisiting popular culture in early modern Germany; title: Habitus and lordship: the transformation of aristocratic practices of rule in the sixteenth century; title: The world of nicknames: on the logic of popular nomenclature; title: Carnival, church and the world turned upside-down: on the function of the culture of laughter in the sixteenth century; title: 'Marriage-weariness' and compulsory matrimony: the popular punishments of pulling the plough and the block; title: Nocturnal disturbances: on the social history of the night in the early modern period; title: The origins of heartlessness: the culture and way of life of beggars in late seventeenth-century Salzburg.