{"product_id":"a-companion-to-late-medieval-and-early-modern-augsburg-9789004414952","title":"A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg introduces readers to major political, social and economic developments in Augsburg from c. 1400 to c. 1800 as well as to those themes of social and cultural history that have made research on this imperial city especially fruitful and stimulating. The volume comprises contributions by an international team of 23 scholars, providing a range of the most significant scholarly approaches to Augsburg’s past from a variety of perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies. Building on the impressive number of recent innovative studies on this large and prosperous early modern city, the  contributions distill the extraordinary range and creativity of recent scholarship on Augsburg into a handbook format.     Contributors are Victoria Bartels, Katy Bond, Christopher W. Close, Allyson Creasman, Regina Dauser, Dietrich Erben, Alexander J. Fisher, Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz, Helmut Graser, Mark Häberlein, Michele Zelinsky Hanson, Peter Kreutz, Hans-Jörg Künast, Margaret Lewis, Andrew Morrall, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Barbara Rajkay, Reinhold Reith, Gregor Rohmann, Claudia Stein, B. Ann Tlusty, Sabine Ullmann, Wolfgang E.J. Weber.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"B. Ann Tlusty and Mark Häberlein’s monumental volume on late medieval and early modern Augsburg brings the history of this intriguing, and in many ways unusual, imperial city to a wider anglophone  audience.[...] There is no doubt that this volume must stand as one of the most complete  and wide-ranging surveys of any single early modern city.[...] a supremely impressive achievement,  and it will undoubtedly  succeed in bringing the intriguing history of Augsburg to a wider audience  for a long time to come\".  Justin Colson, in German Historical Institute London Bulletin, 43 (1), 2021.    \"Le volume est une très bonne introduction à l’histoire et l’historiographie d’Augsbourg au début des Temps modernes. [...] Cette publication permettra aux lectrices et lecteurs non germanophones de découvrir les résultats de recherches sur une ville très importante du Saint Empire et un centre commercial et culturel prémoderne. [...] Pour les lecteurs germanophones, le livre offre surtout un très bon bilan d’ensemble\/résumé sur les recherches sur Augsbourg au XVIe siècle, à une époque de floraison économique et culturelle et une invitation à découvrir davantage l’histoire fascinante de cette ville.\"  Gisela Naegle, in Francia Recensio, 2021 \/ 3.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures  Notes on Contributors    part 1: The City  1 Sources and Historiography   Helmut Graser, Mark Häberlein and B. Ann Tlusty    2 Urban Topography, Population, Visual Representations   Barbara Rajkay    3 Of Invisible Boundaries: Bodies, Plagues, and Healers   Claudia Stein    4 Textual Representation: Chronicles   Gregor Rohmann    part 2: Economy, Politics, and the Law  5 Production, Trade, and Finance   Mark Häberlein    6 Politics under the Guild Regime, 1368–1548   Christopher W. Close    7 Politics under the Patrician Regime, 1548–1806   Mark Häberlein and Barbara Rajkay    8 Crime and Punishment   Allyson F. Creasman    9 Civil Law   Peter Kreutz    PART 3: Religion and Society  10 The Urban Reformation   Michele Zelinsky Hanson    11 Catholic-Protestant Coexistence   Marjorie E. Plummer and B. Ann Tlusty    12 Urban Society: Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility   Mark Häberlein and Reinhold Reith    13 Women, Family, and Sexuality   Margaret Lewis    14 Sociability and Leisure   B. Ann Tlusty    15 The Experience of War   Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz    16 Jews as Ethnic and Religious Minorities   Sabine Ullmann    PART 4: Communication, Cultural and Intellectual Life  17 The Dissemination of News   Regina Dauser    18 Book Production and Trade   Hans-Jörg Künast   Translated by Christine R. Johnson    19 Dress and Material Culture   Victoria Bartels and Katherine Bond    20 Learned Culture   Wolfgang E.J. Weber    21 The Arts   Andrew Morrall    22 Architecture   Dietrich Erben    23 Music   Alexander J. Fisher    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210787283287,"sku":"9789004414952","price":239.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-late-medieval-and-early-modern-augsburg-9789004414952","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}