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IDEAS AND CULTURAL MARGINS IN EARLY MODERN GERMANY

H.C. Erik Midelfort. Courtesy of Dan Addison, U.Va. Public Affairs.

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Robin B. Barnes 2009

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of
H.C. Erik Midelfort
1. Germany Intellectual life 16th century. 2. Germany Social life and customs
16th century. 3. Germany Social conditions 16th century.
I. Midelfort, H. C. Erik II. Barnes, Robin Bruce. III. Plummer, Marjorie.
943.03

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barnes, Robin B., and Marjorie E. Plummer
Ideas and Cultural Margins in early Modern Germany: essays in Honor of
H. C. Erik Midelfort / Robin Barnes and Marjorie E. Plummer.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Germany Intellectual life 16th century. I. Plummer, Marjorie E.
II. Midelfort, H. C. Erik III. Title.
DD65.B37 2009
943.03-dc22

2008047811

ISBN: 978-0-7546-6568-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-3152-5280-3 (ebk)

For H.C. Erik Midelfort, with many thanks and warm regards from his students, friends, and colleagues

CONTENTS

Introduction
Witch-women and Madmen: Digging Postholes with H.C. Erik Midelfort
Thomas A. Brady, Jr.

Peter Blickle, Translated by Randolph C. Head

Helmut Graser and B. Ann Tlusty

Janis M. Gibbs

Kathy Stuart

Lyndal Roper

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

Thomas Robisheaux

Joy Wiltenburg

Snke Lorenz, translated by Randolph C. Head and Hiltrud Schntag

David Lederer

Robin B. Barnes

Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr. and Jole Shackelford

Wolfgang Behringer

Laura Stokes

Allyson F. Creasman

Mitchell Lewis Hammond

Randolph C. Head

Conclusion
The Good, the Bad, and the Airborne:Levitation and the History of the Impossiblein Early Modern Europe
Carlos M.N. Eire

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Venus, 1532. Tempera and oil on beech, 37 x 25 cm; Inv. Nr. 1125. Image courtesy of the Stdel Museum, Frankfurt a.M.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Nymph of the Spring, after 1537. Oil on panel, 48.4 x 72.8 cm, Inv. Nr. 1957.12.1(1497)/PA. Gift of Clarence Y. Palitz. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Double Portrait, Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora, c. 1529, wood, 38.3 x 24 cm; 38.2 x 24.7 cm; Inv. Nr. 1035/1036. Image courtesy of the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.

Titlepage, from Gnzburgs Eleventh Confederate or Wolfaria; HAB 218.12 Quod. (42). Image courtesy of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel.

Doctors Leprosy Certificate for Sarah Frey; StadtAA, Collegium Medicum, Karton 22, 4 July 1571. Image courtesy of the Stadt-archiv Augsburg.

Robin B. Barnes is Professor of History at Davidson College. He has written numerous articles and chapters on early modern prophecy, apocalypticism, and astrology. His first book, Prophecy and Gnosis: Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation, was published by stanford university Press in 1988, and he is the co-editor of Habent sua fata libelli, or, Books Have Their Own Destiny: Essays in Honor of Robert V. Schnucker (1998). He is currently working on a book manuscript on the role of astrology in the social and religious life of German towns during the Reformation era, c. 1480-1620.

Wolfgang Behringer is Professor of Early Modern History at the Universitt des Saarlandes. He has published articles and books on witchcraft, magic, communication history, and urban iconography, and has coedited a number of anthologies of articles and document collections on witch-hunts. His first book, Hexenverfolgung in Bayern: Volksmagie, Glaubenseifer und Staatsrson in der Frhen Neuzeit (1987), was translated into English in 1997. After several books on postal and brewing history, Professor Behringer published a microhistory, Chonrad Stoeckhlin und die Nachtschar: Eine Geschichte aus der frhen Neuzeit (1994), translated into English by Erik Midelfort in 1998. Most recently, he has published Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History (2004) and Kulturgeschichte des Klimas: Von der Eiszeit bis zur globalen Erwrmung (2007), both of which have been translated into many languages.

Peter Blickle is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Universitt Bern. He has published extensively on peasant revolts, communal Reformation, rural identity, and state formation in early modern Germany and Switzerland. He is the author of numerous books, many of which have been translated into English, including The Revolution of 1525: The German Peasants War from a New Perspective (1985); Unruhen in der stndischen Gesellschaft 1300-1800 (1988); Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Germany (1992); Obedient Germans? A Rebuttal: A New View of German History (1997); Resistance, Representation, and Community (The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries)(1997); and From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man (1998).

Thomas A. Brady, Jr, a native Missourian, is Peder Sather Professor Emeritus of History at the university of California, Berkeley. His principal scholarly works concern the social, political, and religious history of the Holy Roman Empire between 1400 and 1700. He is the author of Ruling Class, Regime and Reformation at Strasbourg, 1520-1555 (1978); Turrning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550 (1985); Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German Reformation (1995); and Community, Politics, and Reformation in Early ModernEurope (1998).

Allyson F Creasman is Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She has published articles on censorship and polemics, including a recent piece entitled side-stepping the Censors: the Clandestine Trade in Prohibited Texts in Early Modern Augsburg in an essay collection. Her current book project,

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