Matheus Miller’s Memoir

A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century

AvT. Safley

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

This book reconstructs the worldview of a Lutheran merchant from the city of Augsburg in the seventeenth century. Yet, despite its individual focus, the book explores universal institutions of early modern Europe: patriarchy, hierarchy, honor, community, and confession.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-01-06
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:308 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early Modern History: Society and Culture
Antal sidor:226
Upplaga:1
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349408818

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Thomas Max Safley is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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"In Safley's skilled hands, Matheus's remarkable memoir enlivens our understanding of the experience of the German bourgeoisie..." - Gary K. Waite, Canadian Journal of History "This well-written book presents an excellent picture of seventeenth-century life and one individual's "bourgeois values." - History: Review of New Books "...he shows a sensitive respect for the self-revealing honesty of this remarkable human document." - Sixteenth Century Journal ...[Safley's] intelligent and sensitive rendering of the ambivalences and complexities in his merchant of Augsburg. -American Historical Review

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations/Maps Preface Introduction Marriage and Patriarchy Public Office and Public Sphere Sociability and Social Structure Death and Confession Conclusion Index