Civic Culture and Everyday Life in Early Modern Germany

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Foreword

I. Introduction
II. The Character of the Early Modern City in the Holy Roman Empire
III. The Burghers' Lifestyle
IV. Aspects of the Daily Life
V. The Burgher Family
VI. Historical Microcosms: The Life of the Individual
VII. Beyond Daily Life: Amusements, Music and Dance, Entertainment and Theater
VIII. Bürgertum and the Arts
IX. Bürgertum and Humanism
X. Burgher Culture in the Baroque and Enlightenment: Phases and Institutions
XI. The Cultural Function of the German City in the 17th and 18th Centuries
XII. The Way to Arcadia
XIII. The Invention of the Cultural History of the German Bourgeoisie: Artworks as Sources and Lieux de mémoire

Sources
1. In search of beauty: Albrecht Dürer in Italy. From Albrecht Dürer's letters and his art-theory (1506)
2. A Southern German Imperial city at the beginning of the 16th century. From Johannes Cochlaeus' Germania (1512)
3. A mastersinger as Luther's follower. Hans Sachs, The Nightingale of Wittenberg (1523)
4. Ghosts and heretics in old Basel. From the memoir of Felix Platter (1540/1559)
5. A document of the civilization process. From Friedrich Dedekinds Grobianus (1549)
6. The city of the Fugger: The bi-confessional Augsburg. From Michel de Montaignes' Diary of a Journey to Spas (1580/1581)
7. Conjugal love in the 16th century. From the correspondence of Magdalena and Balathasar Paumgartner (1582-1594)
8. Everyday life in Cologne during the 16th century. From Hermann von Weinsberg's memoirs (1589/90)
9. Travelling Experiences in Germany in the Year of 1611: Baden und Frankfurt. From Thomas Coryate's Crudities
10. The horrors of the Thirty Years' War. The besieged city of Augsburg (1634/35)
11. Life remembrances of 17th-century architect. From Elias Holl's House Chronicle (before 1646)
12. An agent of an artist's fame. From Joachim von Sandrart's Teutscher Academie (German Academy) (1675)
13. How to manage a Christian household. From Franciscus Florinus'