Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany

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Contents: Foreword Introduction: witch-women and madmen: digging postholes with H.C. Erik Midelfort, Thomas A. Brady Jr Part 1 Laity: Serfs 'are not cows or calves': Urbanus Rhegius's theological effort to legitimate unfreedom and to promote personal liberty, Peter Blickle Layers of literacy in a 16th-century case of fraud, Helmut Graser and B. Ann Tlusty Immigration and civic identity in 16th-century Cologne, Janis M. Gibbs Melancholy murderers: suicide by proxy and the insanity defense, Kathy Stuart. Part 2 Clergy: Venus in Wittenburg: Cranach, Luther, and sensuality, Lyndal Roper 'The much married Michael Kramer': evangelical clergy and bigamy in Ernestine Saxony, 1522a 1542, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer Penance, confession, and the self in early modern Lutheranism, Thomas Robisheaux Crime and Christianity in early sensationalism, Joy Wiltenberg. Part 3 Humanists, Doctors, and Professors: Reuchlin and the University of TA bingen, SA nke Lorenze Welfare land: Johannes Eberlin von GA nzburg and the reformation of folly, David Lederer Alexander Seitz and the medical calling physic, faith, and reform, Robin B. Barnes Johannes Crato von Krafftheim (1519a 1585): imperial physician, Irenicist, and anti-Paracelsian, Charles D Gunnoe Jr and Jole Shackelford Witchcraft and the media, Wolfgang Behringer. Part 4 Jurists and Magistrates: Experiments in pain: reason and the development of judicial torture, Laura Stokes 'Lies as truth': policing print and oral culture in the early modern city, Allyson F. Creasman Leprosy and the defeat of diagnosis in 16th-century Germany, Mitchell Lewis Hammond Collecting testimony and parsing texts in Zurich: documentary strategies for defending reformed identities in the Thurgau, 1600a 1656, Randolph C. Head Conclusion: the good, the bad, and the airborne: levitation and the history of the impossible in early modern Europe, Carlos M.N. Eire Bibliography of H.C. Erik Midelfort's publications Select bibliography Index.