Norbert Schindler
Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. Past and Present Publications. First edition. Translation by Pamela E. Selwyn of "Widerspenstige Leute: Studien zur Volkskultur in der fruhen Neuzeit" (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1992). 0521650100 xiv/311 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear, with sunning to spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"When this volume first appeared in German it inspired a whole generation of young scholars. Schindler recreates the lives of both the poor and excluded; the milieu of the burghers; and the rumbustious lifestyles of the Counts von Zimmern. A true archivist, he evokes the lost worlds of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people. He investigates popular nicknames, snowball fights, carnival rituals, even what people did at night-time before the advent of lighting. A final essay deals with an extraordinary late set of trials for witchcraft, in which over 200 people died. Translated into English for the first time, the volume contains a new Foreward by Natalie Zemon Davis and a new introductory essay setting out the key influences of Schindler's work. Norbert Schindler is the leading exponent of historical anthropology in the German-speaking world. A founding member of the German journal Historische Anthropologie, Schindler teaches at the University of Salzburg."