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Keeping the Peace in the Village describes the nature of conflicts among rural people in the period after the Thirty Years' War. These included property disputes, conflicts between employers and their workers, disputes over marriage promises, and, most often, honor disputes.
List of contents
- Glossary of German Words
- Introduction
- 1: Lower Courts and Conflicts in the Village
- 2: The Honor of Peasants
- 3: "You are a whore and a witch." Women's Honor in German Villages
- 4: Conflicts in Public Spaces: The Tavern
- 5: Conflicts in Public Spaces: The Church, the Street, the Fields, the Road
- 6: A System of Conflict Resolution and the Search for Peace
- 7: Social Discipline and the State Formation from Below
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Marc R. Forster earned his BA from Swarthmore College and an MA and PhD from Harvard University. He has been Professor of History at Connecticut College since 1990. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEH, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and the Guggenheim Foundation to support archival research in Germany. Forster's first three books examined aspects of German Catholicism in the early modern period, with a focus on the development of Catholic identity in the rural communities of Southwest Germany. His fourth book is based on a study of court records and examines peace and conflict in German villages in the century after the end of the Thirty Years' War.
Summary
Keeping the Peace in the Village describes the nature of conflicts among rural people in the period after the Thirty Years' War. These included property disputes, conflicts between employers and their workers, disputes over marriage promises, and, most often, honor disputes.
