Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment: Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands

by Melton,James Van Horn

• ISBN13: 9780754605485
• ISBN10: 0754605485
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume of 15 interdisciplinary essays is based on papers given at a conference at Duke University in 1998. Focusing on the territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the early Reformation to the mid-eighteenth century, the volume examines some of the structures, practices and media of communication that helped shape the social, cultural, and political history of the period.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	xi
Notes on contributors	xv
Introduction	1	(9)
James Van Horn Melton
Violence and Urban Identity in Early Modern Augsburg: Communication Strategies between Authorities and Citizens in the Adjudication of Fights	10	(14)
B. Ann Tlusty
Patricide and Pathos: a 1565 Murder in Deed and Word	24	(15)
Joy Wiltenburg
From Public Event to Publishing Event: Court Funerals and the Print Medium in Early Modern Germany	39	(9)
Jill Bepler
Anticlericalism in Bamberg on the Eve of the Peasants' War	48	(18)
William Bradford Smith
Anabaptist Liars: Communicating and Concealing the Faith in Early Modern Tyrol	66	(12)
D. Jonathan Grieser
Preaching and Discipline: the Case of Seventeenth-century Rostock	78	(15)
Jonathan Strom
Debating the Meaning of Pilgrimage: Maria Steinbach 1733	93	(11)
Marc R. Forster
The Public of Confessional Identity: Territorial Church and Church Discipline in Eighteenth-century Hesse	104	(15)
Robert von Friedeburg
Conspiracy and Denunciation: a Local Affair and its European Publics (Bern, 1749)	119	(13)
Andreas Wurgler
Garlic and the Jews: Jorg Breu the Elder's The Mocking of Christ as Protestant `Thesenbild' or Catholic Devotional Image?	132	(26)
Andrew Morrall
Standing by the Ancient Faith: Fribourg's Public Fountains and the Coming of the Reformation	158	(40)
Donald A. McColl
Musical Pedagogy in the German Renaissance	198	(27)
Susan Forscher Weiss
`Not Like the Unreasoning Beasts': Rhetorical Efforts to Separate Humans and Animals in Early Modern Germany	225	(14)
Susan C. Karant-Nunn
Expanding the Therapeutic Canon: Learned Medicine Listens to Folk Medicine	239	(18)
Martha Baldwin
The Debate between Johann Weyer and Thomas Erastus on the Punishment of Witches	257	(30)
Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr
Index	287