Marpingen

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

Av David Blackbourn, Harvard University) Blackbourn, David (Professor of History, and Senior Associate of the Center for European Studies, Professor of History, and Senior Associate of the Center for European Studies, BLACKBOURN

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In July 1876 three eight-year-old girls from Marpingen, a village in the west German border region of Saarland, claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Their visions attracted tens of thousands of pilgrims and prompted numerous claims of miraculous cures. They also led to military intervention, the dispatching of an undercover detective, parliamentary debate, and a dramatic trial. This book examines an episode that contemporaries dubbed the `German Lourdes', its background and its repercussions.David Blackbourn sets out to recreate the Catholic world of Bismarckian Germany through a detailed analysis of the changing social, economic, and community structures in which it was embedded, and a sensitive account of popular religious beliefs. He powerfully evokes the crisis-laden atmosphere of the 1870s, and offers a subtle interpretation of the interplay between politics and religion in newly unified Germany. The book ranges boldly across the fields of social, cultural and political history, in an engrossing story with many contemporary resonances.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1993-12-16
Mått163 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt866 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor480
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198217831
UtmärkelserCO-WINNER OF THE 1996 BIENNIAL PRIZE OF THE CONFERENCE GROUP FOR CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY OF THE AHA FOR BEST BOOK ON GERMAN HISTORY

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David Blackbourn is author of: Class, Religion and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (Yale, London & New Haven, 1980), The Peculiarities of German History (co-author, O.U.P. 1984), Populists and Patricians: Essays in Modern Germany (Unwin Hyman, 1987), and The German Bourgeoisie (co-editor, Routledge, 1991. He is currently writing a History of Nineteenth-Century Germany (for end 1994) Harper-Collins/Fontana UK, and for O.U.P. New York in the USA. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, member of the Editorial Board of Past and Present, and former secretary of the German History Society. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Part 1 The background: apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 19th-century Europe - women and children, visions for troubled times, apparitions and politics, the role of the Church; the place - a changing village in the Saarland - peasants and miners, borderlands, a religious revival; the time - economic crisis and political repression in the 1870s - the great depression, the kulturkampf, the hope of deliverance. Part 2 The apparitions: the visionaries and their world - the visionaries, "one big lie", villagers and the apparitions; pilgrims, cures and commercialization; the reaction of the clergy - for and against, the dangers of popular religion, the parish priest; the apparitions and state repression - soldiers, magistrates and the "Irishman", policing the village, Mettenbuch - a Bavarian comparison, the weaknesses of the Prussian state; the Catholic response - active and passive resistance, the law, the press and politics; progress and piety - liberal hostility - superstition versus civilization, science, "mob-masses" and "hysterical women", liberals, Marpingen and the state. Part 3 The aftermath: the state climbs down - legal reverses, Marpingen in Parliament, the trial; the Church stays silent - a textbook enquiry - Mettenbuch, problems in Trier, secretum; the German Lourdres? - Margingen in the 20th century - renewed interest, "a true apparition mania" - the 1930s, wax and wane - the postwar years.