Overview

Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the German-speaking lands, this volume, gathering leading scholars across multiple disciplines, explores the dynamics and impact of naming (and renaming) processes in a variety of contexts—social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific—in order to enhance our understanding of individual and collective experiences.

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Author:   Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer ,  Joel F. Harrington ,  Randolph C. Head
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   20
ISBN:  

9781789202106

ISBN 10:   1789202108
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Text Introduction: The Dynamics of Early Modern Naming Joel F. Harrington PART I: NAMING THE PAST Chapter 1. Picards, Karlstadtians, and Oecolampadians: (Re)Naming the Early Eucharistic Controversy Amy Nelson Burnett Chapter 2. From the Council to the Founding Myth: How the Spirit of Trent Came to be Named Birgit Emich Chapter 3. Triplets: The Holy Roman Empire's Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648 David Mayes PART II: NAMING AND ORGANIZING KNOWLEDGE Chapter 4. Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation Germany Alexander J. Fisher Chapter 5. Naming the Ambiguous: Income and Royal Service in the Seventeenth Century Heiko Droste Chapter 6. The Mystery of the St. Sebastian Lazareth: Mapping Place-Names and Contagious Disease Hospitals in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg Amy Newhouse Chapter 7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles in the Swiss Cantons John Jordan and Gabi Schopf PART III: NAMING THE OTHER Chapter 8. Naming the Turk and the Moor: Prehistories of Race Carina L. Johnson Chapter 9. Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion Ashley L. Elrod Chapter 10. Confessionisten, Calvinisten, Tibben: Nomenclatures of Legal Exclusion in Northwestern Germany, 1535–1650 David M. Luebke Afterword: Names All the Way Down: Naming Practices in Early Modern Germany and Early Modern Historiography Randolph C. Head Index

Reviews

The book offers unique insights into complex cultural processes, reframing some supposedly well-known areas of German history. Its wide topical scope allows it to explore a remarkable variety of naming processes in the early modern period. Johannes Dillinger, Oxford Brookes University These engaging and highly polished essays together speak to broader ways in which knowledge, political and religious movements, and other social arrangements came to define the history of early modern Europe. Philip M. Soergel, University of Maryland

“The book offers unique insights into complex cultural processes, reframing some supposedly well-known areas of German history. Its wide topical scope allows it to explore a remarkable variety of naming processes in the early modern period.” • Johannes Dillinger, Oxford Brookes University “These engaging and highly polished essays together speak to broader ways in which knowledge, political and religious movements, and other social arrangements came to define the history of early modern Europe.” • Philip M. Soergel, University of Maryland

Author Information

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer is the Susan C. Karant-Nunn Chair for Reformation and Early Modern European History in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. Her publications include From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (2012), She is co-editor of Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H. C. Erik Midelfort (2009), Archeologies of Reformation: Writing the German Reformation, 1517–2017 (2017), and Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance: Responses to Religious Pluralism in Reformation Europe (2018).

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