Armed Memory
Agency and Peasant Revolts in Central and Southern Europe (1450–1700)
Contributions by Peter Blickle Contributions by Katalin Péter Contributions by Zoltàn Csepregi Contributions by Marco Gentile Contributions by Giorgio Politi Contributions by Martin Rothkegel Contributions by Natasa Stefanec Contributions by Márton Szilágyi Contributions by Márta Fata Contributions by Pál Ács Contributions by László Szörényi Contributions by Gabriella Erdélyi Contributions by Gergely Tóth Contributions by Farkas Gábor Kiss Contributions by Erzsébet Tatai Edited by Gabriella Erdélyi Associate editor Günter Frank Associate editor Ute Lotz-Heumann Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer Associate editor Johannes Schilling Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky Associate editor Siegrid Westphal Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen Associate editor Mathijs Lamberigts Associate editor Bruce Gordon Associate editor David M. Whitford
Hardback (Published)
(December 2015)
ISBN: 9783525550977
6.34 x 9.33 inches
Price: $188.00
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The perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts.
The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of structural explanations like the model of state-building versus popular resistance, it wishes to put back the peasants themselves to the historical narratives of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom, which was a practical issue for them. Nonetheless, the language of lord-peasant negotiation was that of religion, just as official punishments used Christian symbols. The approach of revolts as the events of collective violence also highlights the experiences and memories of participants. How did individuals and groups use remembering and forgetting as a means of forging an identity for themselves? Instead of the narratives of the powerful that became the normative stories of history, the perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts more forcibly. Finally, contributors examine how later narrators used the rebels for their own purposes, in other words the subsequent representation of the revolts and their leaders in image, literature and historiography comes to the fore. The volume aims to overcome disciplinary boundaries by bringing together historians and scholars of related disciplines including the history of literature, the visual arts and anthropology. The central contention of the volume — the cultural imprint of peasant revolts — is fully addressed, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.
Gabriella Erdelyi, PhD, is senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
- Contributions by Peter Blickle
- Contributions by Katalin Péter
- Contributions by Zoltan Csepregi
- Contributions by Marco Gentile
- Contributions by Giorgio Politi
- Contributions by Martin Rothkegel
- Contributions by Natasa Stefanec
- Contributions by Márton Szilágyi
- Contributions by Márta Fata
- Contributions by Pál Ács
- Contributions by László Szörényi
- Contributions by Gabriella Erdélyi
- Contributions by Gergely Tóth
- Contributions by Farkas Gábor Kiss
- Contributions by Erzsébet Tatai
- Edited by Gabriella Erdélyi
- Associate editor Günter Frank
- Associate editor Ute Lotz-Heumann
- Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer
- Associate editor Johannes Schilling
- Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky
- Associate editor Siegrid Westphal
- Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen
- Associate editor Mathijs Lamberigts
- Associate editor Bruce Gordon
- Associate editor David M. Whitford
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The Doctrine of Election in Reformed Perspective
Historical and Theological Investigations of the Synod of Dordt 1618–1619
Sebastian Castellio (1515–1563) – Dissidenz und Toleranz
Beiträge zu einer internationalen Tagung auf dem Monte Verità in Ascona 2015
Was there a Lutheran Metaphysics?
The interpretation of communicatio idiomatum in Early Modern Lutheranism
Petrus Dathenus und der Heidelberger Katechismus
Eine traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zum konfessionellen Wandel in der Kurpfalz um 1563
Word of God, words of men
Translations, inspirations, transmissions of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Renaissance
The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700)
Vol. 1: Between Trent, Rome and Wittenberg
Der Erlebnisraum Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Genese, Entwicklung und Bestand eines protestantischen Erinnerungsortes
Ringen um den einen Gott
Eine politische Geschichte des Antitrinitarismus in Siebenbürgen im 16. Jahrhundert
Protestant Majorities and Minorities in Early Modern Europe
Confessional Boundaries and Contested Identities
The Irenic Calvinism of Daniel Kalaj (d. 1681)
A Study in the History and Theology of the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation
Common Man, Society and Religion in the 16th century/Gemeiner Mann, Gesellschaft und Religion im 16. Jahrhundert
Piety, morality and discipline in the Carpathian Basin/Frömmigkeit, Moral und Sozialdisziplinierung im Karpatenbogen
The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700)
Vol. 2: Between Bishops and Princes
The Holy Crown and the Hungarian Estates
Constructing Early Modern Identity in the Kingdom of Hungary
Managing Melancholy
Dynamics of theology, medicine and law in early modern Nordic Lutheran societies
Die politischen Gesetze des Mose als Vorbild
Entstehung und Einflüsse der politia-judaica-Literatur in der Frühen Neuzeit
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