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For the rural societies of Germany the early sixteenth century was a time of massive upheavals. In this probing study of village life, based upon rich manuscript sources from the old County of Hohenlohe, Thomas Robisheaux seeks to understand how petty German princes, Lutheran pastors, and villagers struggled to create order out of their confusing world. The Hohenlohe region experienced all of the turmoil associated with the sixteenth century, including a peasant near-rising in 1600, the brutal effects of the wage-price scissors, chronic shortages of land, famines, impoverishment, and the destructive cycles of war. By using concepts borrowed from anthropology, Professor Robisheaux looks for the way social hierarchy and discipline countered the disruptive changes of the age. The years between 1550 and 1620 saw new sources of stability and order created in the family; through systematized customs of inheritance; through market relationships; and in the practice of state power within the village.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany
• Author: Thomas Robisheaux
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9780521356268
• ISBN: 0521356261
• ID: 02028330
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 555 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 160 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 1989

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