| Autore |
Roeck Bernd
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (302 p.)
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| Collana |
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
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| Soggetto topico |
Middle class - Germany - History
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| ISBN |
1-281-39980-9
9786611399801
90-474-1042-4
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Chapter One Introduction -- 1. Cultural Significance of the German Citizen from Late Medieval to Early Modern Period -- 2. On Terminology: Bürgertum, Culture, Ways of Living,and Environment -- 3. The Citizens and Rural Society -- Chapter Two The Character of the Early Modern City in the Holy Roman Empire -- 1. Geography -- 2. Vedute: The Ideal and the Reality of the City -- 3. City Planning and Construction -- 4. The Ideal and the Planned City -- 5. The Burgher's House -- 6. Cobblestones and Filth -- Chapter Three The Burghers' Lifestyle -- 1. The "Burgher House" and its Furnishings: Problems of Research -- 2. Spheres of Life -- 3. Household Culture: Lighting and Heating -- 4. Organization of the Rooms -- 5. Furnishings and Living Atmosphere -- 6. Periodization -- 7. Economic and Social Prerequisites for Change -- Chapter Four Aspects of the Daily Life -- 1. Organization of Time, Daily Routine -- 2. Meals and Drinks -- 3. Table Manners -- 4. Clothing and Fashion -- 5. Hygiene -- 6. Lifestyles and the Process of Civilization -- Chapter Five The Burgher Family -- 1. Aspects of Recent Research -- 2. The "Whole House" -- 3. Values -- 4. New Avenues for Research -- Chapter Six Historical Microcosms: The Life of the Individual -- 1. Youth and Education -- 2. Marriage -- 3. Death -- Chapter Seven Beyond Daily Life: Amusements, Music and Dance, Entertainment and Theater -- 1. Leisure and Free-time -- 2. Music and Dance -- 3. Theater -- 4. 18th Century Developments: The Concert Hall and Burgher Theater with Circles and Balconies -- Chapter Eight Bürgertum and the Arts -- 1. Art as History -- 2. The Rise of the Artist -- 3. Works of Art in the City -- 4. Urban Architecture -- 5. The Art Market and the Collecting of Art.
6. The Cultural Centrality of Church and Court in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- Chapter Nine Bürgertum and Humanism -- 1. Italy and Germany -- 2. Paths of Cultural Transfer -- 3. Significance of the Urban World for the Expansion of Humanist Culture -- 4. Humanism and Education -- Chapter Ten Burgher Culture in the Baroque and Enlightenment: Phases and Institutions -- 1. The Problem of Periodization and Epochs -- 2. Institutions and Means of Discourse -- 3. The Enlightenment and Criticism: Tendencies towards Politicization -- Chapter Eleven The Cultural Function of the German City in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- Chapter Twelve The Way to Arcadia -- Chapter Thirteen The Invention of the Cultural History of the German Bourgeoisie: Artworks as Sources and Lieux de mémoire -- 1. Pictures of German Burgher Culture during the Early Modern Period:Some Remarks Concerning Quellenkritik -- 2. The Image of the Burgher: What Portraits Tell Us -- 3. The German Bildungsbürgertum (the Educated Middle Classes)and the Cultural History of Early Modern Europe: The Image of the Nineteenth Century -- 4. The Lieux de mémoire -- 5. Was There an Early Modern German National Culture? -- Sources -- 1. In search of beauty: Albrecht Dürer in Italy -- 2. A Southern German Imperial city at the beginning of the 16th century -- 3. A mastersinger as Luther's follower -- 4. Ghosts and heretics in old Basel -- 5. A document of the civilization process -- 6. The city of the Fugger: The bi-confessional Augsburg -- 7. Conjugal love in the 16th century -- 8. Everyday life in Cologne during the 16th century -- 9. Travelling Experiences in Germany in the Year of 1611: Baden und Frankfurt -- 10. The horrors of the Thirty Years' War -- 11. Life remembrances of 17th-century architect -- 12. An agent of an artist's fame -- 13. How to manage a Christian household.
14. A French glance at Berlin and Hamburg -- 15. An enlightened glance at old cities -- 16. Enlightenment and tolerance -- 17. The most famous definition of Enlightenment -- 18. Education in the period of Enlightenment -- 19. A boyhood in 18th-century Frankfurt -- 20. The German national character -- Select Bibliography (Works after 1991) -- Index -- STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION TRADITIONS.
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Civic culture and everyday life in early modern Germany [[electronic resource] /] / by Bernd Roeck
