A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History

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Ute Lotz-Heumann is Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. She specializes in European early modern history, especially the history of Germany and Ireland.

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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. It is divided into six subject areas, each comprising between twelve and fourteen explicated sources: I. The fabric of communities: Social interaction and social control; II. Social spaces: Experiencing and negotiating encounters; III. Propriety, legitimacy, fi delity: Gender, marriage, and the family; IV. Expressions of faith: Offi cial and popular religion; V. Realms intertwined: Religion and politics; and, VI. Defining the religious other: Identities and conflicts. Spanning the period from c. 1450 to c. 1750 and including primary sources from across early modern Europe, from Spain to Transylvania, Italy to Iceland, and the European colonies, this book provides an excellent sense of the diversity and complexity of human experience during this time whilst drawing attention to key themes and events of the period. It is ideal for students of early modern history, and of early modern Europe in particular.

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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. It is divided into six subject areas, each comprising between twelve and fourteen explicated sources: I. The fabric of communities: Social interaction and social control; II. Social spaces: Experiencing and negotiating encounters; III. Propriety, legitimacy, fi delity: Gender, marriage, and the family; IV. Expressions of faith: Offi cial and popular religion; V. Realms intertwined: Religion and politics; and, VI. Defining the religious other: Identities and conflicts.

Spanning the period from c. 1450 to c. 1750 and including primary sources from across early modern Europe, from Spain to Transylvania, Italy to Iceland, and the European colonies, this book provides an excellent sense of the diversity and complexity of human experience during this time whilst drawing attention to key themes and events of the period. It is ideal for students of early modern history, and of early modern Europe in particular.

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I. The fabric of communities: Social interaction and social control; Introduction; 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: Garcíade Contreras Figueroa before the royal appellate court of New Spain, Mexico City, 1580; viii; 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 1719; 12. Against corruption in all the estates: An early eighteenth-century Pietist vision for universal reform through education; II. Social spaces: Experiencing and negotiating encounters; Introduction; 13. Life at a German court: The importance of equestrian skill in the early seventeenth century 65; 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; III. Propriety, legitimacy, fidelity: Gender, marriage, and the family; Introduction; 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); IV. Expressions of faith: Official and popular religion; Introduction; 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 Mar í a 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; V. Realms intertwined: Religion and politics; Introduction; 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 …