A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History

"I. The fabric of communities: Social interaction and social control; Introduction; 1. Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are: Marx Fugger on horses as markers of social status, 1584; 2. From Bohemia to Spain and back again: Sports diplomacy in fifteenth-century Europe; 3. Resisting and defending noble privileges in the New World: Garcíade Contreras Figueroa before the royal appellate court of New Spain, Mexico City, 1580; viii; 4. ""And so the old world has renewed"": Magdalena Paumgartner of Nuremberg reveals the social significance of fashion, 1591; 5. In and out of the ivory tower: The scholar Conrad Pellikan starts a new life in Zurich in 1526; 6. A Protestant pastor should set an example for his community: Johannes Brandmüller of Basel gets into trouble in 1591; 7. Spain, 1649: The Inquisition disciplines two Catholic priests who shot the baby Jesus; 8. Canterbury, 1560: Slander and social order in an early modern town; 9. ‘Popular duels’: Honor, violence, and reconciliation in an Augsburg street fight in 1642; 10. Regulating day laborers’ wages in sixteenth-century Zwickau; 11. Ore Mountain miners stage a social protest in 1719; 12. Against corruption in all the estates: An early eighteenth-century Pietist vision for universal reform through education; II. Social spaces: Experiencing and negotiating encounters; Introduction; 13. Life at a German court: The importance of equestrian skill in the early seventeenth century 65; 14. The constitutional treaty of a German city: Strasbourg, 1482; 15. Contested spaces: Bishop and city in late fifteenth- century Augsburg; 16. Uproar in Antwerp, 1522; 17. ""We want the friar!"" A civic uprising in Augsburg in 1524; 18. Bourges: Public rituals of collective and personal identity in the middle of the sixteenth century; 19. Castres, 1561: A town erupts into religious violence; 20. Swiss towns put on a play: Urban space as stage in the sixteenth century; 21. Smoke, sound, and murder in sixteenth- century Paris; 22. Bologna’s Feast of the Roast Pig: A carnivalesque festival in a sixteenth-century Italian city square; 23. Taking control of village religion: Wendelstein in Franconia, 1524; 24. A Swiss village’s religious settlement: Zizers in Graubünden, 1616; 25. Mapping the unseen: A Bohemian Jesuit meets the Palaos Islanders, 1697; III. Propriety, legitimacy, fidelity: Gender, marriage, and the family; Introduction; 26. Housefather and housemother: Order and hierarchy in the early modern family; 27. Sexual crime and political conflict: An Alsatian nobleman is burned to death with his male lover in 1482; 28. ""O abomination!"" A sixteenth-century sermon against adultery; 29. Hans Gallmeyer: Seduction, bigamy, and forgery in an Augsburg workshop in 1565; 30. Professor Bryson’s unfortunate engagement, Geneva, 1582; 31. Gender relations in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War: A groom refuses to marry his bride; 32. Defining a new profession: Ordinance regulating midwives, Nuremberg, 1522; 33. A Chatty Comedy About the Birthing Room: Johannes Praetorius observes women’s lives in seventeenth-century Germany; 34. A letter sent from Augsburg in 1538: A Protestant minister writes to a friend about his illegitimate son; 35. Piedmont, 1712: Son forced into monastery by his father manages to get out; 36. A mother tries to reform her son: Elisabeth of Braunschweig’s ""Motherly Admonition"" to her son Erich, 1545; 37. Old age outside the bosom of the family: Elizabeth Freke of Norfolk (d. 1714); IV. Expressions of faith: Official and popular religion; Introduction; 38. Reformation by accident? Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517; 39. Thomas Müntzer: A radical alternative; 40. Holy Scripture alone: Philip Melanchthon and academic theology; 41. Interpreting the Bible in the sixteenth century: John Calvin on the Gospels of Luke and Matthew; 42. How to organize a church: John a Lasco on the election of ministers, 1555; 43. What is a good death? Barbara Dürer, 1514; 44. A funeral sermon for Christian Röhrscheidt, law student in Leipzig, 1627; 45. Pilsen, 1503: A wonderful apparition; 46. Hornhausen: A Protestant miracle well in seventeenth-century Germany; 47. Gent, 1658: The miracle of the breast milk – or perhaps not; 48. A snapshot of Iberian religiosities: The inquisitorial case against the New Christian Mar í a de Sierra, 1651; 49. Blazing stars: Interpreting comets as portents of the future in late seventeenth-century Germany; 50. Picturing witchcraft in late seventeenth- century Germany; 51. Loftur the Sorcerer and clerical magic in eighteenth-century Iceland; V. Realms intertwined: Religion and politics; Introduction; 52. Martin Luther defies Frederick the Wise: A letter from Borna, 1522; 53. Philip Melanchthon justifies magisterial reform, 1539; 54. The courage to avow the truth: Philip Melanchthon on the Interim, 1548; 55. 6 July 1535 – interpreting Thomas More’s last words: God or king?; 56. Mansfeld, 1554: Follow- up to an ecclesiastical visitation; 57. Reformation mandates for the Pays de Vaud, 1536: How Bernese authorities tried to force their subjects to become Protestants; 58. Ministers and magistrates: The excommunication debate in Lausanne in 1558; 59. Who is in charge? Politics, religion, and astrology during the Thirty Years’ War; 60. Advocating religious tolerance: A Nuremberg voice of 1530; 61. Assuring civil rights for religious minorities in sixteenth-century France; 62. Turda, 1568: Tolerance Transylvanian style; 63. Who suffered? A row in the Dublin Privy Council, 1605; 64. Is the throne empty? James II’s supposed desertion of 1688 discussed; 65. Dubrovnik: A Catholic state under the Ottoman sultan; VI. Defining the religious other: Identities and conflicts; Introduction; 66. The ‘red Jews’ and Protestant reformers; 67. Debating the Reformation in Torgau, 1522; 68. A Freiburg citizen’s response to Luther in 1524; 69. Augustin Bader of Augsburg (d. 1530): Weaver, prophet, messianic king; 70. Should you consecrate bells? Johannes Eberlin von Günzburg argues against an established religious practice in 1525; 71. Catholic preaching on the eve of the French Wars of Religion: A eucharistic battleground; 72. How to convince Catholics that Protestants have sex in the open air: Gabriel du Pr é au’s Catalogue of All Heretics, 1569; 73. The Luther family’s flight: A Counter- Reformation polemical broadsheet of the 1620s; 74. God intervenes: A eucharistic miracle in the principality of Orange, 1678; 75. Different confessions, difficult choices: Theodore Beza converts after thirteen years of inner struggles; 76. ""A priest you were on Sunday / Monday morning a minister"": Clerical conformity in eighteenth- century Ireland; 77. A great poet describes his own times: John Milton’s Of Reformation, 1641; 78. Thomas Gage in Guatemala: A Puritan’s memoir of preaching among the Maya, 1648; 79. The morality of doubt: The religious skeptics of seventeenth-century Venice"