Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
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.-
The Emperor's Old Clothes
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Walls, Borders, Boundaries
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Beyond Posthumanism
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After The History of Sexuality
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Beyond Alterity
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Archeologies of Confession
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Money in the German-speaking Lands
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Ruptures in the Everyday
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Views of Violence
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What Remains
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Dreams of Germany
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The Total Work of Art
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Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany
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Kinship, Community, and Self
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The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
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The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
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Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
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Reluctant Skeptic
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Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany
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Football Nation
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Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
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Becoming East German
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The Devil's Riches
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Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
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Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
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Feelings Materialized
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Agency and Author
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Religious Plurality at Princely Courts
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Invested Narratives
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Mixed Matches
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Healing and Harm
“The book offers unique insights into complex cultural processes, reframing some supposedly well-known areas of German historyIts wide topical scope allows it to explore a remarkable variety of naming processes in the early modern period.” • Johannes Dillinger, Oxford Brookes University
“These engaging and highly polished essays together speak to broader ways in which knowledge, political and religious movements, and other social arrangements came to define the history of early modern Europe.” • Philip M. Soergel, University of Maryland
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer is the Susan C. Karant-Nunn Chair for Reformation and Early Modern European History in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. Her publications include From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (2012), She is co-editor of Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H. C. Erik Midelfort (2009), Archeologies of Reformation: Writing the German Reformation, 1517–2017 (2017), and Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance: Responses to Religious Pluralism in Reformation Europe (2018).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789202106 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789202108 |
| Title | Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany |
| Author | Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer |
| Series | Spektrum: Publications Of The German Studies Association |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2019-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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