Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany

Published by Berghahn Books 2019

Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany

Edited by: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Joel F. Harrington

Volume 20 in the series Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202113

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About this book

Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the German-speaking lands, this volume, gathering leading scholars across multiple disciplines, explores the dynamics and impact of naming (and renaming) processes in a variety of contexts—social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific—in order to enhance our understanding of individual and collective experiences.

Author / Editor information

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).

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). He served as President of the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär from 2012-15 and hosted the society’s triennial conference at Vanderbilt in 2015.

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).

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Text Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction. The Dynamics of Early Modern Naming Joel F. Harrington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Naming the Past
1. Picards, Karlstadtians, and Oecolampadians: (Re)Naming the Early Eucharistic Controversy Amy Nelson Burnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. From the Council to the Founding Myth: How the Spirit of Trent Came to be Named Birgit Emich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Triplets: The Holy Roman Empire’s Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648 David Mayes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Part II. Naming and Organizing Knowledge
4. Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation Germany Alexander J. Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5. Naming the Ambiguous: Income and Royal Service in the Seventeenth Century Heiko Droste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. The Mystery of the St. Sebastian Lazareth: Mapping Place-Names and Contagious Disease Hospitals in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg Amy Newhouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles in the Swiss Cantons John Jordan and Gabi Schopf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Part III. Naming the Other
8. Naming the Turk and the Moor: Prehistories of Race Carina L. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
9. Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion Ashley L. Elrod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
10. Confessionisten, Calvinisten, Tibben: Nomenclatures of Legal Exclusion in Northwestern Germany, 1535–1650 David M. Luebke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Afterword. Names All the Way Down: Naming Practices in Early Modern Germany and Early Modern Historiography Randolph C. Head Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Keywords: german history; history reference; history of names; linguistics; anthropology; onomastics; how things are named; german names; german culture; onomasticology; academic text; eucharist; spirit of trent; roman empire; psalter; naming diseases; naming textiles

eBook

Published: June 1, 2019
ISBN: 9781789202113