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Article: Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.(Book Review) (book review)
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- March 22, 2003
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Trans. Pamela E. Selwyn Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 311 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-521-65010-0 Publication Date: October 2002
This English translation of six essays, originally published in the 1980s, by the German historical anthropologist Norbert Schindler, comes highly recommended as a work offering surprising insights into the world of ordinary people in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. To some extent this claim is tree. Schindler is indefatigable in hunting down examples of popular rituals, habits, beliefs, and social interplay and thus creating a vivid picture of life in the streets, lanes, taverns, cottages, and manor houses of the early ...