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From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770-1840. John G. Gagliardo

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsFrom Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770-1840. John G. Gagliardo Carol Rose LossCarol Rose Loss Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 42, Number 4Dec., 1970 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/244055 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1970 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770–1840. By <italic>John G. Gagliardo</italic>. ([Lexington:] University Press of Kentucky. 1969. Pp. xii, 338. $8.25.)

Journal Article From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770–1840. By John G. Gagliardo. ([Lexington:] University Press of Kentucky. 1969. Pp. xii, 338. $8.25.) Get access From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770–1840. By Gagliardo John G.. ([Lexington:] University Press of Kentucky. 1969. Pp. xii, 338. $8.25.) Lenore O'Boyle Lenore O'Boyle Cleveland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 75, Issue 5, June 1970, Pages 1472–1473, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/75.5.1472-a Published: 01 June 1970

From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770-1840

From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770-1840

The German Enigma

No country within the Western orbit offers to foreign thinkers such an ambiguous and enigmatic aspect as does Germany. There is no end of books and articles wrestling with this problem.German history presents sufficient justification for the existence of an enigmatic dualism within the nation. To begin with: Germany is that country in Europe through which a line of profound cultural demarcation runs. The Limes Germanicus (cf. my articles in this Review, July and October, 1939) signified the borderline of Roman conquest and Roman cultural penetration. Within this line Mediterranean civilization took undisputed hold both during the Roman Empire and throughout the middle ages, in the latter period mediated by the Church. The lands farther to the East and North became christianized hundreds of years later than the lands around the Danube and Rhine valley. Often the christianization of the East was pushed forward by force of arms. Riehl, Nietzsche, Ricarda Huch and others have remarked that, to all appearances, the christianization of the German North and East was only superficial, a thin veneer over a basically heathen reality; of late H. Rauschning expressed his concern over the quick disappearance of the Christian faith and ethics among the Northern German peasants after Nazism came to power, and the prophets of the “German Faith” today spread the suggestion that the Northern German peasant never was a Christian.

The Roman Law and the German Peasant

The Roman Law and the German Peasant

The German Peasant War of 1525

The German Peasant War of 1525