1st Edition
A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History Life, Death, and Everything in Between
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.
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
How to use this book
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
General introduction
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
I. The fabric of communities: Social interaction and social control
Introduction
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
1. Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are: Marx Fugger on horses as markers of social status, 1584
By Pia F. Cuneo
2. From Bohemia to Spain and back again: Sports diplomacy in fifteenth-century Europe
By Paul Milliman
3. Resisting and defending noble privileges in the New World: Garcíade Contreras Figueroa before the royal appellate court of New Spain, Mexico City, 1580
By Michael Crawford
4. "And so the old world has renewed": Magdalena Paumgartner of Nuremberg reveals the social significance of fashion, 1591
By Ulinka Rublack
5. In and out of the ivory tower: The scholar Conrad Pellikan starts a new life in Zurich in 1526
By Bruce Gordon
6. A Protestant pastor should set an example for his community: Johannes Brandmüller of Basel gets into trouble in 1591
By Amy Nelson Burnett
7. Spain, 1649: The Inquisition disciplines two Catholic priests who shot the baby Jesus
By Allyson M. Poska
8. Canterbury, 1560: Slander and social order in an early modern town
By Catherine Richardson
9. ‘Popular duels’: Honor, violence, and reconciliation in an Augsburg street fight in 1642
By B. Ann Tlusty
10. Regulating day laborers’ wages in sixteenth-century Zwickau
By Siegfried Hoyer
11. Ore Mountain miners stage a social protest in 1719
By Helmut Bräuer
12. Against corruption in all the estates: An early eighteenth-century Pietist vision for universal reform through education
By Richard L. Gawthrop
II. Social spaces: Experiencing and negotiating encounters
Introduction
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
13. Life at a German court: The importance of equestrian skill in the early seventeenth century 65
By Pia F. Cuneo
14. The constitutional treaty of a German city: Strasbourg, 1482
By Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
15. Contested spaces: Bishop and city in late fifteenth- century Augsburg
By J. Jeffery Tyler
16. Uproar in Antwerp, 1522
By Victoria Christman
17. "We want the friar!" A civic uprising in Augsburg in 1524
By Joel Van Amberg
18. Bourges: Public rituals of collective and personal identity in the middle of the sixteenth century
By Jonathan A. Reid
19. Castres, 1561: A town erupts into religious violence
By Barbara B. Diefendorf
20. Swiss towns put on a play: Urban space as stage in the sixteenth century
By Kaspar Von Greyerz
21. Smoke, sound, and murder in sixteenth- century Paris
By Alan E. Bernstein
22. Bologna’s Feast of the Roast Pig: A carnivalesque festival in a sixteenth-century Italian city square
By Nicholas Terpstra
23. Taking control of village religion: Wendelstein in Franconia, 1524
By Katherine G. Brady and Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
24. A Swiss village’s religious settlement: Zizers in Graubünden, 1616
By Randolph C. Head
25. Mapping the unseen: A Bohemian Jesuit meets the Palaos Islanders, 1697
By Ulrike Strasser
III. Propriety, legitimacy, fidelity: Gender, marriage, and the family
Introduction
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
26. Housefather and housemother: Order and hierarchy in the early modern family
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
27. Sexual crime and political conflict: An Alsatian nobleman is burned to death with his male lover in 1482
By Christopher Ocker
28. "O abomination!" A sixteenth-century sermon against adultery
By Curt Bostick
29. Hans Gallmeyer: Seduction, bigamy, and forgery in an Augsburg workshop in 1565
By Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
30. Professor Bryson’s unfortunate engagement, Geneva, 1582
By Karin Maag
31. Gender relations in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War: A groom refuses to marry his bride
By Heide Wunder
32. Defining a new profession: Ordinance regulating midwives, Nuremberg, 1522
By Merry E. Wiesner- Hanks
33. A Chatty Comedy About the Birthing Room: Johannes Praetorius observes women’s lives in seventeenth-century Germany
By Gerhild Scholz Williams
34. A letter sent from Augsburg in 1538: A Protestant minister writes to a friend about his illegitimate son
By Milton Kooistra
35. Piedmont, 1712: Son forced into monastery by his father manages to get out
By Anne Jacobson Schutte (†)
36. A mother tries to reform her son: Elisabeth of Braunschweig’s "Motherly Admonition" to her son Erich, 1545
By Jill Bepler
37. Old age outside the bosom of the family: Elizabeth Freke of Norfolk (d. 1714)
By Lynn A. Botelho
IV. Expressions of faith: Official and popular religion
Introduction
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
38. Reformation by accident? Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517
By Scott H. Hendrix
39. Thomas Müntzer: A radical alternative
By Günter Vogler
40. Holy Scripture alone: Philip Melanchthon and academic theology
By Nicole Kuropka
41. Interpreting the Bible in the sixteenth century: John Calvin on the Gospels of Luke and Matthew
By Bernard Roussel
42. How to organize a church: John a Lasco on the election of ministers, 1555
By Michael S. Springer
43. What is a good death? Barbara Dürer, 1514
By Helmut Puff
44. A funeral sermon for Christian Röhrscheidt, law student in Leipzig, 1627
By Cornelia Niekus Moore
45. Pilsen, 1503: A wonderful apparition
By Kathryn A. Edwards
46. Hornhausen: A Protestant miracle well in seventeenth-century Germany
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
47. Gent, 1658: The miracle of the breast milk – or perhaps not
By Craig Harline
48. A snapshot of Iberian religiosities: The inquisitorial case against the New Christian Mar í a de Sierra, 1651
By David Graizbord
49. Blazing stars: Interpreting comets as portents of the future in late seventeenth- century Germany
By Andrew Fix (†)
50. Picturing witchcraft in late seventeenth- century Germany
By Charles Zika
51. Loftur the Sorcerer and clerical magic in eighteenth-century Iceland
By Thomas B. De Mayo
V. Realms intertwined: Religion and politics
Introduction
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
52. Martin Luther defies Frederick the Wise: A letter from Borna, 1522
By Heinz Schilling
53. Philip Melanchthon justifies magisterial reform, 1539
By James M. Estes
54. The courage to avow the truth: Philip Melanchthon on the Interim, 1548
By Irene Dingel
55. 6 July 1535 – interpreting Thomas More’s last words: God or king?
By Marjory E. Lange
56. Mansfeld, 1554: Follow- up to an ecclesiastical visitation
By Robert Christman
57. Reformation mandates for the Pays de Vaud, 1536: How Bernese authorities tried to force their subjects to become Protestants
By James J. Blakeley
58. Ministers and magistrates: The excommunication debate in Lausanne in 1558
By Michael W. Bruening
59. Who is in charge? Politics, religion, and astrology during the Thirty Years’ War
By Sigrun Haude
60. Advocating religious tolerance: A Nuremberg voice of 1530
By Berndt Hamm
61. Assuring civil rights for religious minorities in sixteenth-century France
By Raymond A. Mentzer
62. Turda, 1568: Tolerance Transylvanian style
By Graeme Murdock
63. Who suffered? A row in the Dublin Privy Council, 1605
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
64. Is the throne empty? James II’s supposed desertion of 1688 discussed
By Peter Foley (†)
65. Dubrovnik: A Catholic state under the Ottoman sultan
By James D. Tracy
VI. Defining the religious other: Identities and conflicts
Introduction
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
66. The ‘red Jews’ and Protestant reformers
By Andrew Colin Gow
67. Debating the Reformation in Torgau, 1522
By Craig Koslofsky
68. A Freiburg citizen’s response to Luther in 1524
By Tom Scott
69. Augustin Bader of Augsburg (d. 1530): Weaver, prophet, messianic king
By Robert J. Bast
70. Should you consecrate bells? Johannes Eberlin von Günzburg argues against an established religious practice in 1525
By Euan Cameron
71. Catholic preaching on the eve of the French Wars of Religion: A eucharistic battleground
By Larissa Juliet Taylor
72. How to convince Catholics that Protestants have sex in the open air: Gabriel du Pr é au’s Catalogue of All Heretics, 1569
By Irena Backus
73. The Luther family’s flight: A Counter- Reformation polemical broadsheet of the 1620s
By Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
74. God intervenes: A eucharistic miracle in the principality of Orange, 1678
By S. Amanda Eurich
75. Different confessions, difficult choices: Theodore Beza converts after thirteen years of inner struggles
By Scott M. Manetsch
76. "A priest you were on Sunday / Monday morning a minister": Clerical conformity in eighteenth- century Ireland
By Monica Brennan
77. A great poet describes his own times: John Milton’s Of Reformation, 1641
By David Cressy
78. Thomas Gage in Guatemala: A Puritan’s memoir of preaching among the Maya, 1648
By Kevin Gosner
79. The morality of doubt: The religious skeptics of seventeenth-century Venice
By Edward Muir
Map 1: Europe after 1648
List of Contributors
Index
Biography
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.
