Religion and Culture in Germany (1400-1800)

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-11457-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 81, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

The late Bob Scribner was one of the most original and provocative historians of the German Reformation. His truly pioneering spirit comes to light in this collection of his most recent essays.

In the years before his death, Scribner explored the role of the senses in late medieval devotional culture, and wondered how the Reformation changed sensual attitudes. Further essays examine the nature of popular culture and the way the Reformation was institutionalised, considering Anabaptist ideals of the community of goods, literacy and heterodoxy, and the dynamics of power as they unfold in a case of witchcraft.

The final section of the book consists of three iconoclastic essays, which, together, form a sustained assault on the argument first advanced by Max Weber that the Reformation created a rational, modern religion. Scribner shows that, far from being rationalist and anti-magical, Protestants had their own brand of magic. These fine essays are certain to spark off debate, not only among historians of the Reformation, but also among art historians and anyone interested in the nature of culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scribner, Robert

Roper, Lyndal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Places of Original Publication
Publications of R.W. ‘Bob’ Scribner
Acknowledgements

Bob Scribner: A Personal Reflection, Lyndal Roper
Robert W. Scribner, A Historian of the German Reformation, Thomas A. Brady, Jr.

THE POPULAR
1. Is a History of Popular Culture Possible?
2. Elements of Popular Belief

WAYS OF SEEING
3. Perceptions of the Sacred in Germany at the End of the Middle Ages
4. Popular Piety and Modes of Visual Perception in Late-Medieval and Reformation Germany
5. From the Sacred Image to the Sensual Gaze: Sense Perceptions and the Visual in the Objectification of the Female Body in Sixteenth-century Germany

POWER AND COMMUNITY
6. Anticlericalism and the Cities
7. Pastoral Care and the Reformation in Germany
8. Practical Utopia: Pre-Modern Communism and the Reformation
9. Heterodoxy, Literacy and Print in the Early German Reformation
10. Witchcraft and Judgement in Reformation Germany

PROTESTANTISM AND MAGIC
11. The Impact of the Reformation on Daily Life.
12. Symbolising Boundaries: Defining Social Space in the Daily Life of Early Modern Germany
13. Magic and the Formation of Protestant Popular Culture in Germany
14. The Reformation, Popular Magic, and the ‘Disenchantment of the World’

Indices
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

R. W. Scribner, (1941-1998) took up a Chair at Harvard University having been Reader in History and Fellow of Clare College for many years at the University of Cambridge. He was one of the most dynamic and creative of the historians of the German Reformation. His books include For the Sake of Simple Folk. Popular Propanganda for the German Reformation (Cambridge University Press 1994) and Popullar Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany (Hambledon Press, 1987).