A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between 1st Edition by Ute Lotz-Heumann (Editor) 0815373538 9780815373537

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• ISBN 10: 0815373538
• ISBN 13:9780815373537
• Author:Ute Lotz-Heumann

A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning. By covering different areas of early modern life through the lens of contemporaries’ experiences, this book serves as an introduction to the early modern European world in a way that a narrative history of the period cannot.

Table contents:

1 Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are: Marx Fugger on horses as markers of social status, 1584
2 From Bohemia to Spain and back again: Sports diplomacy in fifteenth-century Europe
3 Resisting and defending noble privileges in the New World: García de Contreras Figueroa before the royal appellate court of New Spain, Mexico City, 1580
4 “And so the old world has renewed”: Magdalena Paumgartner of Nuremberg reveals the social significance of fashion, 1591
5 In and out of the ivory tower: The scholar Conrad Pellikan starts a new life in Zurich in 1526
6 A Protestant pastor should set an example for his community: Johannes Brandmüller of Basel gets into trouble in 1591
7 Spain, 1649: The Inquisition disciplines two Catholic priests who shot the baby Jesus
8 Canterbury, 1560: Slander and social order in an early modern town
9 ‘Popular duels’: Honor, violence, and reconciliation in an Augsburg street fight in 1642
10 Regulating day laborers’ wages in sixteenth-century Zwickau
11 Ore Mountain miners stage a social protest in 17191
12 Against corruption in all the estates: An early eighteenth-century Pietist vision for universal reform through education
13 Life at a German court: The importance of equestrian skill in the early seventeenth century
14 The constitutional treaty of a German city: Strasbourg, 1482
15 Contested spaces: Bishop and city in late fifteenth-century Augsburg
16 Uproar in Antwerp, 1522
17 “We want the friar!” A civic uprising in Augsburg in 1524
18 Bourges: Public rituals of collective and personal identity in the middle of the sixteenth century
19 Castres, 1561: A town erupts into religious violence
20 Swiss towns put on a play: Urban space as stage in the sixteenth century
21 Smoke, sound, and murder in sixteenth-century Paris
22 Bologna’s Feast of the Roast Pig: A carnivalesque festival in a sixteenth-century Italian city square
23 Taking control of village religion: Wendelstein in Franconia, 1524
24 A Swiss village’s religious settlement: Zizers in Graubünden, 1616
25 Mapping the unseen: A Bohemian Jesuit meets the Palaos Islanders, 1697
26 Housefather and housemother: Order and hierarchy in the early modern family
27 Sexual crime and political conflict: An Alsatian nobleman is burned to death with his male lover in 1482
28 “O abomination!” A sixteenth-century sermon against adultery
29 Hans Gallmeyer: Seduction, bigamy, and forgery in an Augsburg workshop in 1565
30 Professor Bryson’s unfortunate engagement, Geneva, 1582
31 Gender relations in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War: A groom refuses to marry his bride
32 Defining a new profession: Ordinance regulating midwives, Nuremberg, 1522
33 A Chatty Comedy About the Birthing Room: Johannes Praetorius observes women’s lives in seventeenth-century Germany
34 A letter sent from Augsburg in 1538: A Protestant minister writes to a friend about his illegitimate son
35 Piedmont, 1712: Son forced into monastery by his father manages to get out
36 A mother tries to reform her son: Elisabeth of Braunschweig’s “Motherly Admonition” to her son Erich, 1545
37 Old age outside the bosom of the family: Elizabeth Freke of Norfolk (d. 1714)
38 Reformation by accident? Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517
39 Thomas Müntzer: A radical alternative
40 Holy Scripture alone: Philip Melanchthon and academic theology
41 Interpreting the Bible in the sixteenth century: John Calvin on the Gospels of Luke and Matthew
42 How to organize a church: John a Lasco on the election of ministers, 1555
43 What is a good death? Barbara Dürer, 1514
44 A funeral sermon for Christian Röhrscheidt, law student in Leipzig, 1627
45 Pilsen, 1503: A wonderful apparition
46 Hornhausen: A Protestant miracle well in seventeenth-century Germany
47 Gent, 1658: The miracle of the breast milk – or perhaps not
48 A snapshot of Iberian religiosities: The inquisitorial case against the New Christian María de Sierra, 1651
49 Blazing stars: Interpreting comets as portents of the future in late seventeenth-century Germany
50 Picturing witchcraft in late seventeenth-century Germany
51 Loftur the Sorcerer and clerical magic in eighteenth-century Iceland
52 Martin Luther defies Frederick the Wise: A letter from Borna, 1522
53 Philip Melanchthon justifies magisterial reform, 1539
54 The courage to avow the truth: Philip Melanchthon on the Interim, 1548
55 6 July 1535 – interpreting Thomas More’s last words: God or king?
56 Mansfeld, 1554: Follow-up to an ecclesiastical visitation
57 Reformation mandates for the Pays de Vaud, 1536: How Bernese authorities tried to force their subjects to become Protestants
58 Ministers and magistrates: The excommunication debate in Lausanne in 1558
59 Who is in charge? Politics, religion, and astrology during the Thirty Years’ War
60 Advocating religious tolerance: A Nuremberg voice of 15301
61 Assuring civil rights for religious minorities in sixteenth-century France
62 Turda, 1568: Tolerance Transylvanian style
63 Who suffered? A row in the Dublin Privy Council, 1605
64 Is the throne empty? James II’s supposed desertion of 1688 discussed
65 Dubrovnik: A Catholic state under the Ottoman sultan
66 The ‘red Jews’ and Protestant reformers
67 Debating the Reformation in Torgau, 1522
68 A Freiburg citizen’s response to Luther in 1524
69 Augustin Bader of Augsburg (d. 1530): Weaver, prophet, messianic king
70 Should you consecrate bells? Johannes Eberlin von Günzburg argues against an established religious practice in 1525
71 Catholic preaching on the eve of the French Wars of Religion: A eucharistic battleground
72 How to convince Catholics that Protestants have sex in the open air: Gabriel du Préau’s Catalogue of All Heretics, 1569
73 The Luther family’s flight: A Counter-Reformation polemical broadsheet of the 1620s
74 God intervenes: A eucharistic miracle in the principality of Orange, 1678
75 Different confessions, difficult choices: Theodore Beza converts after thirteen years of inner struggles
76 “A priest you were on Sunday / Monday morning a minister”: Clerical conformity in eighteenth-century Ireland
77 A great poet describes his own times: John Milton’s Of Reformation, 1641
78 Thomas Gage in Guatemala: A Puritan’s memoir of preaching among the Maya, 1648
79 The morality of doubt: The religious skeptics of seventeenth-centu

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