Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany Tapa dura - 2002

8vo. dustwrapper. [i-xiv]. 311pp. 12 maps and illustrations. a good copy.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.

Past and Present Publications. Translation by Pamela E. Selwyn of "Widerspenstige Leute: Studien zur Volkskultur in der fruhen Neuzeit" (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1992). Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear, with sunning to spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiv/311 pages.
"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 rumbustious 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… Leer más

Hardback. New. When this volume first appeared in German it inspired a whole generation of young scholars by evoking the lost worlds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people. The volume contains a new Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis and a new introductory essay setting out the key influences of Schindler's work.

Cambridge University Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge University Press, 2002-11-25. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!