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Article: Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 2004
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Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany by Norbert Schindler. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv, 311 pp. $80.00 US (cloth).
Originally titled Widerspenstige Leute: Studien zur Volkskultur in der fruhen Neuzeit, published in 1992, and now ably translated by Pamela E. Selwyn, this learned and scintillating book represents an important further stage in the social history of the early modern period. The author, Norbert Schindler, now on the faculty of the University of Salzburg, is a leading exponent of historical anthropology. He tells us in the introduction that when he began writing about Volkskultur he ...