Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany

Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany
ISBN-10
0521347785
ISBN-13
9780521347785
Series
Power in the Blood
Category
History
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
1984
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
David Warren Sabean

Description

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.

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