Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521347785)

This book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life in the duchy of W rttemberg in southwest Germany between 1580 and 1800, in which state authorities conducted a special investigation into local events. The cases and characters involved include peasants' refusal to celebrate church rituals; a self-proclaimed prophet who encountered an angel in his vineyard; a thirteen-year-old-witch; a paranoid pastor; a murder; and live burial of a village bull.

Author: David Warren Sabean
ISBN-10: 0521347785
ISBN-13: 9780521347785
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/1988
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.02w x 0.70d