A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of contents List of figures Preface Acknowledgements How to use this book General introduction The early modern era as a transitional period Society and economy Religion and the churches Politics and the state Note Further reading I The fabric of communities: Social interaction and social control 1 Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are: Marx Fugger on horses as markers of social status, 1584 Note 2 From Bohemia to Spain and back again: Sports diplomacy in fifteenth-century Europe Notes 3 Resisting and defending noble privileges in the New World: García de Contreras Figueroa before the royal... Notes 4 “And so the old world has renewed”: Magdalena Paumgartner of Nuremberg reveals the social significance... Notes 5 In and out of the ivory tower: The scholar Conrad Pellikan starts a new life in Zurich in 1526 Notes 6 A Protestant pastor should set an example for his community: Johannes Brandmüller of Basel gets into trouble in 1591 Notes 7 Spain, 1649: The Inquisition disciplines two Catholic priests who shot the baby Jesus Notes 8 Canterbury, 1560: Slander and social order in an early modern town Notes 9 ‘Popular duels’: Honor, violence, and reconciliation in an Augsburg street fight in 1642 Notes 10 Regulating day laborers’ wages in sixteenth-century Zwickau Notes 11 Ore Mountain miners stage a social protest in 1719 Notes 12 Against corruption in all the estates: An early eighteenth-century Pietist vision for universal reform through... Notes II Social spaces: Experiencing and negotiating encounters 13 Life at a German court: The importance of equestrian skill in the early seventeenth century Notes 14 The constitutional treaty of a German city: Strasbourg, 1482 Notes 15 Contested spaces: Bishop and city in late fifteenth-century Augsburg Note 16 Uproar in Antwerp, 1522 Note 17 “We want the friar!” A civic uprising in Augsburg in 1524 Note 18 Bourges: Public rituals of collective and personal identity in the middle of the sixteenth century Notes 19 Castres, 1561: A town erupts into religious violence Notes 20 Swiss towns put on a play: Urban space as stage in the sixteenth century Notes 21 Smoke, sound, and murder in sixteenth-century Paris1 Notes 22 Bologna’s Feast of the Roast Pig: A carnivalesque festival in a sixteenth-century Italian city square Notes 23 Taking control of village religion: Wendelstein in Franconia, 1524 Notes 24 A Swiss village’s religious settlement: Zizers in Graubünden, 1616 Notes 25 Mapping the unseen: A Bohemian Jesuit meets the Palaos Islanders, 1697 III Propriety, legitimacy, fidelity: Gender, marriage, and the family 26 Housefather and housemother: Order and hierarchy in the early modern family Notes 27 Sexual crime and political conflict: An Alsatian nobleman is burned to death with his male lover in 1482 Notes 28 “O abomination!” A sixteenth-century sermon against adultery Notes 29 Hans Gallmeyer: Seduction, bigamy, and forgery in an Augsburg workshop in 1565 Notes 30 Professor Bryson’s unfortunate engagement, Geneva, 1582 Notes 31 Gender relations in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War: A groom refuses to marry his bride Notes 32 Defining a new profession: Ordinance regulating midwives, Nuremberg, 1522 Note 33 A Chatty Comedy About the Birthing Room: Johannes Praetorius observes women’s lives in seventeenth-century Germany Notes 34 A letter sent from Augsburg in 1538: A Protestant minister writes to a friend about his illegitimate son Notes 35 Piedmont, 1712: Son forced into monastery by his father manages to get out Notes 36 A mother tries to reform her son: Elisabeth of Braunschweig’s “Motherly Admonition” to her son Erich, 1545 Notes 37 Old age outside the bosom of the family: Elizabeth Freke of Norfolk (d. 1714) Notes IV Expressions of faith: Official and popular religion 38 Reformation by accident? Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517 Notes 39 Thomas Müntzer: A radical alternative Notes 40 Holy Scripture alone: Philip Melanchthon and academic theology Notes 41 Interpreting the Bible in the sixteenth century: John Calvin on the Gospels of Luke and Matthew Notes 42 How to organize a church: John a Lasco on the election of ministers, 1555 Notes 43 What is a good death? Barbara Dürer, 1514 Notes 44 A funeral sermon for Christian Röhrscheidt, law student in Leipzig, 1627 Notes 45 Pilsen, 1503: A wonderful apparition Notes 46 Hornhausen: A Protestant miracle well in seventeenth-century Germany Note 47 Gent, 1658: The miracle of the breast milk – or perhaps not Notes 48 A snapshot of Iberian religiosities: The inquisitorial case against the New Christian María de Sierra, 1651 Notes 49 Blazing stars: Interpreting comets as portents of the future in late seventeenth-century Germany Notes 50 Picturing witchcraft in late seventeenth-century Germany Notes 51 Loftur the Sorcerer and clerical magic in eighteenth-century Iceland Notes V Realms intertwined: Religion and politics 52 Martin Luther defies Frederick the Wise: A letter from Borna, 1522 Notes 53 Philip Melanchthon justifies magisterial reform, 1539 Notes 54 The courage to avow the truth: Philip Melanchthon on the Interim, 15481 Notes 55 6 July 1535 – interpreting Thomas More’s last words: God or king? Notes 56 Mansfeld, 1554: Follow-up to an ecclesiastical visitation Notes 57 Reformation mandates for the Pays de Vaud, 1536: How Bernese authorities tried to force their subjects to... Notes 58 Ministers and magistrates: The excommunication debate in Lausanne in 1558 Notes 59 Who is in charge? Politics, religion, and astrology during the Thirty Years’ War Notes 60 Advocating religious tolerance: A Nuremberg voice of 15301 Notes 61 Assuring civil rights for religious minorities in sixteenth-century France Notes 62 Turda, 1568: Tolerance Transylvanian style Notes 63 Who suffered? A row in the Dublin Privy Council, 1605 Notes 64 Is the throne empty? James II’s supposed desertion of 1688 discussed Notes 65 Dubrovnik: A Catholic state under the Ottoman sultan Notes VI Defining the religious other: Identities and conflicts 66 The ‘red Jews’ and Protestant reformers Notes 67 Debating the Reformation in Torgau, 1522 Notes 68 A Freiburg citizen’s response to Luther in 1524 Notes 69 Augustin Bader of Augsburg (d. 1530): Weaver, prophet, messianic king Notes 70 Should you consecrate bells? Johannes Eberlin von Günzburg argues against an established religious practice in 1525 Notes 71 Catholic preaching on the eve of the French Wars of Religion: A eucharistic battleground Notes 72 How to convince Catholics that Protestants have sex in the open air: Gabriel du Préau’s Catalogue of... Notes 73 The Luther family’s flight: A Counter-Reformation polemical broadsheet of the 1620s Notes 74 God intervenes: A eucharistic miracle in the principality of Orange, 1678 Notes 75 Different confessions, difficult choices: Theodore Beza converts after thirteen years of inner struggles Notes 76 “A priest you were on Sunday / Monday morning a minister”: Clerical conformity in eighteenth-century Ireland Notes 77 A great poet describes his own times: John Milton’s Of Reformation, 1641 Notes 78 Thomas Gage in Guatemala: A Puritan’s memoir of preaching among the Maya, 1648 Notes 79 The morality of doubt: The religious skeptics of seventeenth-century Venice Notes Map List of contributors Index