Armed Memory

Peasant Uprisings in Central and Southern Europe (1450–1700)
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-525-55097-7
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 027, 361 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)

The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of structural explanations like the model of state-building versus popular resistance, it wishes to put back the peasants themselves to the historical narratives of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom, which was a practical issue for them. Nonetheless, the language of lord-peasant negotiation was that of religion, just as official punishments used Christian symbols. The approach of revolts as the events of collective violence also highlights the experiences and memories of participants. How did individuals and groups use remembering and forgetting as a means of forging an identity for themselves? Instead of the narratives of the powerful that became the normative stories of history, the perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts more forcibly. Finally, contributors examine how later narrators used the rebels for their own purposes, in other words the subsequent representation of the revolts and their leaders in image, literature and historiography comes to the fore. The volume aims to overcome disciplinary boundaries by bringing together historians and scholars of related disciplines including the history of literature, the visual arts and anthropology. The central contention of the volume - the cultural imprint of peasant revolts - is fully addressed, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erdélyi, Gabriella

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blickle, Peter

Péter, Katalin

Csepregi, Zoltàn

Gentile, Marco

Politi, Giorgio

Rothkegel, Martin

Stefanec, Natasa

Szilágyi, Márton

Fata, Márta

Ács, Pál

Szörényi, László

Erdélyi, Gabriella

Tóth, Gergely

Kiss, Farkas Gábor

Tatai, Erzsébet

Frank, Günter

Lotz-Heumann, Ute

Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara

Schilling, Johannes

Wassilowsky, Günther

Westphal, Siegrid

Rasmussen, Tarald

Lamberigts, Mathijs

Gordon, Bruce

Whitford, David M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Leseproben

The volume re-contextualizes revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of the narratives of the powerful that became the normative stories of history, the perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom.
The volume aims to overcome disciplinary boundaries by bringing together historians and scholars of related disciplines including the history of literature, the visual arts and anthropology.>

Über Autor(innen)

Rothkegel, Martin
Dr. Martin Rothkegel ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte am Theologischen Seminar Elstal.

Rasmussen, Tarald
Tarald Rasmussen ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Oslo.

Erdélyi, Gabriella
Gabriella Erdélyi, PhD, is senior research fellow at the Institute of History (Research Centre for The Humanities) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Fata, Márta
Dr. Márta Fata ist apl. Professorin am Seminar für Neuere Geschichte der Universität Tübingen.

Erdélyi, Gabriella
Gabriella Erdélyi, PhD, is senior research fellow at the Institute of History (Research Centre for The Humanities) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Gordon, Bruce
Dr. Bruce Gordon is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School.

Westphal, Siegrid
Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Osnabrück sowie Direktorin des Forschungszentrums Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit.

Péter, Katalin
Katalin Péter, DSc., ist emeritierte Professorin des Instituts für Geschichte (Research Centre for The Humanities) der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Frank, Günter
Dr. Günter Frank ist Direktor der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten und außerplanmäßiger Professor am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

Wassilowsky, Günther
Dr. Günther Wassilowsky ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Schilling, Johannes
Johannes Schilling ist Professor im Ruhestand für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Kiel.

Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara
Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer ist Professorin em. für „Neuere deutsche Literatur“ an der Universität Bern.

Gabriella Erdélyi, PhD, is senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.