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Informationen zum Autor Joel F. Harrington is Centennial Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He has published seven books on various social, legal, and religious aspects of pre-modern Germany, including Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within (2018), and The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (2013). He served as President of the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär from 2012-15 and hosted the society's triennial conference at Vanderbilt in 2015. Klappentext Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics-the study of names-in the German-speaking lands, this volume, gathering leading scholars across multiple disciplines, explores the dynamics and impact of naming (and renaming) processes in a variety of contexts-social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific-in order to enhance our understanding of individual and collective experiences. Zusammenfassung This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics! the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social! artistic! literary! theological! and scientific. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables Notes on Text Introduction: The Dynamics of Early Modern Naming Joel F. Harrington PART I: NAMING THE PAST Chapter 1. Picards, Karlstadtians, and Oecolampadians: (Re)Naming the Early Eucharistic Controversy Amy Nelson Burnett Chapter 2. From the Council to the Founding Myth: How the Spirit of Trent Came to be Named Birgit Emich Chapter 3. Triplets: The Holy Roman Empire's Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648 David Mayes PART II: NAMING AND ORGANIZING KNOWLEDGE Chapter 4. Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation Germany Alexander J. Fisher Chapter 5. Naming the Ambiguous: Income and Royal Service in the Seventeenth Century Heiko Droste Chapter 6. The Mystery of the St. Sebastian Lazareth: Mapping Place-Names and Contagious Disease Hospitals in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg Amy Newhouse Chapter 7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles in the Swiss Cantons John Jordan and Gabi Schopf PART III: NAMING THE OTHER Chapter 8. Naming the Turk and the Moor: Prehistories of Race Carina L. Johnson Chapter 9. Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion Ashley L. Elrod Chapter 10. Confessionisten, Calvinisten, Tibben: Nomenclatures of Legal Exclusion in Northwestern Germany, 1535-1650 David M. Luebke Afterword: Names All the Way Down: Naming Practices in Early Modern Germany and Early Modern Historiography Randolph C. Head Index ...
