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基本説明
Translated by Pamela Selwyn (Widerspenstige Leute; Studien zur Volkskultur in der frühen Neuzeit). This classic volume is translated into English for the first time, with a new introductory essay by Natalie Zemon Davis.
Full Description
When this volume first appeared in German it inspired a whole generation of young scholars. Schindler recreates the lives of both the poor and excluded; the milieu of the burghers; and the rumbustuous lifestyles of the Counts von Zimmern. A true archivist, he evokes the lost worlds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people. He investigates popular nicknames, snowball fights, carnival rituals, even what people did at night-time before the advent of lighting. A final essay deals with an extraordinary late set of trials for witchcraft, in which over 200 people died. Translated into English for the first time, the volume contains a new Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis and a new introductory essay setting out the key influences of Schindler's work. Norbert Schindler is the leading exponent of historical anthropology in the German-speaking world. A founding member of the German journal Historische Anthropologie, Schindler teaches at the University of Salzburg.
Contents
Introduction: revisiting the elusive quarry: popular culture in early modern Germany; 1. Habitus and lordship: the transformation of aristocratic practices of rule in the sixteenth century; 2. The world of nicknames: on the logic of popular nomenclature; 3. Carnival, church and the world turned upside-down: on the function of the culture of laughter in the sixteenth century; 4. 'Marriage weariness' and compulsory matrimony: the popular punishments of pulling the plough and the block; 5. Nocturnal disturbances: on the social history of the night in the early modern period; 6. The origins of heartlessness: the culture and way of life of beggars in late seventeenth-century Salzburg.
