Names and naming in early modern Germany / edited by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Joel F. Harrington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth, editor.

Harrington, Joel F., editor.

Series:

Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--Germany--History.

Names, Personal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Text

Introduction. The Dynamics of Early Modern Naming

Part I. Naming the Past

1. Picards, Karlstadtians, and Oecolampadians: (Re)Naming the Early Eucharistic Controversy

2. From the Council to the Founding Myth: How the Spirit of Trent Came to be Named

3. Triplets: The Holy Roman Empire’s Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648

Part II. Naming and Organizing Knowledge

4. Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation Germany

5. Naming the Ambiguous: Income and Royal Service in the Seventeenth Century

6. The Mystery of the St. Sebastian Lazareth: Mapping Place-Names and Contagious Disease Hospitals in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg

7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles in the Swiss Cantons

Part III. Naming the Other

8. Naming the Turk and the Moor: Prehistories of Race

9. Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion

10. Confessionisten, Calvinisten, Tibben: Nomenclatures of Legal Exclusion in Northwestern Germany, 1535–1650

Afterword. Names All the Way Down: Naming Practices in Early Modern Germany and Early Modern Historiography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-564-6

1-78920-211-6