Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany

Joel F. Harrington is Centennial Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He has published seven books on various social, legal, and religious aspects of pre-modern Germany, including Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within (2018) and The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (2013).Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer is the Susan C. Karant Chair for Reformation and Early Modern European History in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. She has published From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (2012).

"The book offers unique insights into complex cultural processes, reframing some supposedly well-known areas of German history. Its 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

• List of Figures and MapsIntroduction: The Dynamics of Early Modern NamingJoel F. HarringtonPART I: NAMING THE PASTChapter 1. Picards, Karlstadtians, and Oecolampadians: (Re-) Naming the Early Eucharistic ControversyAmy Nelson BurnettChapter 2. From the Council to the Founding Myth: How the Spirit of Trent was TermedBirgit EmichChapter 3. Triplets: The Holy Roman Empire's Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648David MayesPART II: NAMING AND ORGANIZING KNOWLEDGEChapter 4. Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation GermanyAlexander J. FisherChapter 5. Naming the Ambiguous: Income and Royal Service in the Seventeenth CenturyHeiko DrosteChapter 6. The Mystery of the St. Sebastian Lazareth: Mapping Contagious Disease Care in Sixteenth-Century NurembergAmy NewhouseChapter 7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles in the Swiss CantonsJohn Jordan and Gabi SchopfPART III: NAMING THE OTHERChapter 8. Naming the Turk and the Moor: Prehistories of RaceCarina L. JohnsonChapter 9. Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public OpinionAshley L. ElrodChapter 10. Confessionisten, Calvinisten, Tibben: Nomenclatures of Legal Exclusion in Northwestern GermanyDavid M. LuebkeAfterword: Names All the Way Down: Naming Practices in Early Modern Germany and Early Modern HistoriographyRandolph C. HeadIndex