Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern GermanyCambridge University Press, 1984 - 250 pagini This book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life in the duchy of WÜrttemberg in southwest Germany between 1580 and 1800, in which state authorities conducted a special investigation into local events. The cases and characters involved include peasants' refusal to celebrate church rituals; a self-proclaimed prophet who encountered an angel in his vineyard; a thirteen-year-old-witch; a paranoid pastor; a murder; and live burial of a village bull. |
Cuprins
Communion and community The refusal to attend the Lords Supper in the sixteenth century | 37 |
A prophet in the Thirty Years War Penance as a social metaphor | 61 |
The sacred bond of unity Community through the eyes of a thirteenyearold witch 1683 | 94 |
Blasphemy adultery and persecution Paranoia in the pulpit 16961710 | 113 |
The conscience of the poor A village detective story 173343 | 144 |
The sins of belief A village remedy for hoof and mouth disease 1796 | 174 |
Conclusion | 199 |
Notes | 214 |
Glossary | 238 |
| 241 | |
| 249 | |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Anna Catharina authorities Baden-Württemberg Becker behavior Beutelsbach blood Bolley Bregenzer Bregenzer's Breuninger brothers Bürger Bürgermeister burial bury the bull central chapter communion conflict conscience consistory context court culture danger devil discourse discussion domination duke eighteenth century enemies example exercise fact Gallassin Geiger Gericht Gerlingen girl God's Göppingen gossip Hattenhofen Herrschaft Ibid individual inheritance issue Jerg Bauer Jerg Drohmann Johann Valentin Andreae Johannes Johannes Brenz Keil Keil's kinship Kirchheim unter Teck Knauer Leonberg LKA Synodus Protocolle Lord magistrates marriage matter mediated metaphor Neckarhausen neighbors notion officials oh woe pastor peasant penance person Plessing practice prayer problem punishment relations relationships Renz rumor sacrament schoolmaster Schultheiss sermon sick sins sixteenth century social spiritual story structure Stuttgart suggested superintendent took town Tübingen Vannius village vision Vogt Vögte Waiblingen Weiss WHSA A209 Bü Widerstand wife witch witchcraft word Württemberg Württemberg Hauptstaatsarchiv
Pasaje populare
Pagina 29 - What is common in community is not shared values or common understanding so much as the fact that members of a community are engaged in the same argument, the same raisonnement, the same Rede, the same discourse, in which alternative strategies, misunderstandings, conflicting goals and values are threshed out.
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