Sourcebook of Early Modern European History

Ute Lotz-Heumann is Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. She specializes in European early modern history, especially the history of Germany and Ireland.

• I. The fabric of communities: Social interaction and social control; Introduction; 1. Show me your horse and I will tell you who you are: Marx Fugger on horses as markers of social status, 1584; 2. From Bohemia to Spain and back again: Sports diplomacy in fifteenth-century Europe; 3. Resisting and defending noble privileges in the New World: Garcíade Contreras Figueroa before the royal appellate court of New Spain, Mexico City, 1580; viii; 4. "And so the old world has renewed": Magdalena Paumgartner of Nuremberg reveals the social significance of fashion, 1591; 5. In and out of the ivory tower: The scholar Conrad Pellikan starts a new life in Zurich in 1526; 6. A Protestant pastor should set an example for his community: Johannes Brandmüller of Basel gets into trouble in 1591; 7. Spain, 1649: The Inquisition disciplines two Catholic priests who shot the baby Jesus; 8. Canterbury, 1560: Slander and social order in an early modern town; 9. ‘Popular duels’: Honor, violence, and reconciliation in an Augsburg street fight in 1642; 10. Regulating day laborers’ wages in sixteenth-century Zwickau; 11. Ore Mountain miners stage a social protest in 1719; 12. Against corruption in all the estates: An early eighteenth-century Pietist vision for universal reform through education; II. Social spaces: Experiencing and negotiating encounters; Introduction; 13. Life at a German court: The importance of equestrian skill in the early seventeenth century 65; 14. The constitutional treaty of a German city: Strasbourg, 1482; 15. Contested spaces: Bishop and city in late fifteenth- century Augsburg; 16. Uproar in Antwerp, 1522; 17. "We want the friar!" A civic uprising in Augsburg in 1524; 18. Bourges: Public rituals of collective and personal identity in the middle of the sixteenth century; 19. Castres, 1561: A town erupts into religious violence; 20. Swiss towns put on a play: Urban space as stage in the sixteenth century; 21. Smoke, sound, and murder in sixteenth- century Paris; 22. Bologna’s Feast of the Roast Pig: A carnivalesque festival in a sixteenth-century Italian city square; 23. Taking control of village religion: Wendelstein in Franconia, 1524; 24. A Swiss village’s religious settlement: Zizers in Graubünden, 1616; 25. Mapping the unseen: A Bohemian Jesuit meets the Palaos Islanders, 1697; III. Propriety, legitimacy, fidelity: Gender, marriage, and the family; Introduction; 26. Housefather and housemother: Order and hierarchy in the early modern family; 27. Sexual crime and political conflict: An Alsatian nobleman is burned to death with his male lover in 1482; 28. "O abomination!" A sixteenth-century sermon against adultery; 29. Hans Gallmeyer: Seduction, bigamy, and forgery in an Augsburg workshop in 1565; 30. Professor Bryson’s unfortunate engagement, Geneva, 1582; 31. Gender relations in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War: A groom refuses to marry his bride; 32. Defining a new profession: Ordinance regulating midwives, Nuremberg, 1522; 33. A Chatty Comedy About the Birthing Room: Johannes Praetorius observes women’s lives in seventeenth-century Germany; 34. A letter sent from Augsburg in 1538: A Protestant minister writes to a friend about his illegitimate son; 35. Piedmont, 1712: Son forced into monastery by his father manages to get out; 36. A mother tries to reform her son: Elisabeth of Braunschweig’s "Motherly Admonition" to her son Erich, 1545; 37. Old age outside the bosom of the family: Elizabeth Freke of Norfolk (d. 1714); IV. Expressions of faith: Official and popular religion; Introduction; 38. Reformation by accident? Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517; 39. Thomas Müntzer: A radical alternative; 40. Holy Scripture alone: Philip Melanchthon and academic theology; 41. Interpreting the Bible in the sixteenth century: John Calvin on the Gospels of Luke and Matthew; 42. How to organize a church: John a Lasco on the election of ministers, 1555; 43. What is a good death? Barbara Dürer, 1514; 44. A funeral sermon for Christian Röhrscheidt, law student in Leipzig, 1627; 45. Pilsen, 1503: A wonderful apparition; 46. Hornhausen: A Protestant miracle well in seventeenth-century Germany; 47. Gent, 1658: The miracle of the breast milk – or perhaps not; 48. A snapshot of Iberian religiosities: The inquisitorial case against the New Christian Mar í a de Sierra, 1651; 49. Blazing stars: Interpreting comets as portents of the future in late seventeenth-century Germany; 50. Picturing witchcraft in late seventeenth- century Germany; 51. Loftur the Sorcerer and clerical magic in eighteenth-century Iceland; V. Realms intertwined: Religion and politics; Introduction; 52. Martin Luther defies Frederick the Wise: A letter from Borna, 1522; 53. Philip Melanchthon justifies magisterial reform, 1539; 54. The courage to avow the truth: Philip Melanchthon on the Interim, 1548; 55. 6 July 1535 – interpreting Thomas More’s last words: God or king?; 56. Mansfeld, 1554: Follow- up to an ecclesiastical visitation; 57. Reformation mandates for the Pays de Vaud, 1536: How Bernese authorities tried to force their subjects to become Protestants; 58. Ministers and magistrates: The excommunication debate in Lausanne in 1558; 59. Who is in charge? Politics, religion, and astrology during the Thirty Years’ War; 60. Advocating religious tolerance: A Nuremberg voice of 1530; 61. Assuring civil rights for religious minorities in sixteenth-century France; 62. Turda, 1568: Tolerance Transylvanian style; 63. Who suffered? A row in the Dublin Privy Council, 1605; 64. Is the throne empty? James II’s supposed desertion of 1688 discussed; 65. Dubrovnik: A Catholic state under the Ottoman sultan; VI. Defining the religious other: Identities and conflicts; Introduction; 66. The ‘red Jews’ and Protestant reformers; 67. Debating the Reformation in Torgau, 1522; 68. A Freiburg citizen’s response to Luther in 1524; 69. Augustin Bader of Augsburg (d. 1530): Weaver, prophet, messianic king; 70. Should you consecrate bells? Johannes Eberlin von Günzburg argues against an established religious practice in 1525; 71. Catholic preaching on the eve of the French Wars of Religion: A eucharistic battleground; 72. How to convince Catholics that Protestants have sex in the open air: Gabriel du Pr é au’s Catalogue of All Heretics, 1569; 73. The Luther family’s flight: A Counter- Reformation polemical broadsheet of the 1620s; 74. God intervenes: A eucharistic miracle in the principality of Orange, 1678; 75. Different confessions, difficult choices: Theodore Beza converts after thirteen years of inner struggles; 76. "A priest you were on Sunday / Monday morning a minister": Clerical conformity in eighteenth- century Ireland; 77. A great poet describes his own times: John Milton’s Of Reformation, 1641; 78. Thomas Gage in Guatemala: A Puritan’s memoir of preaching among the Maya, 1648; 79. The morality of doubt: The religious skeptics of seventeenth-century Venice

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