This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook "Pictures of German Life in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Scenes from the Hussite War (1425):_x000D_ Emigration of Germans to the east after the thirteenth century_x000D_ Contrast of the Bohemians…_x000D_ A German Lady of the Royal Court:_x000D_ Life at Court_x000D_ The last of the Luxemburgers_x000D_ The Hungarian Crown..._x000D_ A Travelling Student:_x000D_ Characteristics of the fifteenth century_x000D_ Introductions in the sixteenth century_x000D_ The Latin schools, the children of the people as scholars…_x000D_ The Mental Struggles of a Youth, and his Entrance into a Monastery (1510):_x000D_ The church_x000D_ Brotherhoods; Indulgences..._x000D_ Out of the Cloister into the Struggle (1522):_x000D_ The storm among the people_x000D_ Luther's popularity_x000D_ Narrative of Johann Kessler..._x000D_ Doctor Luther (1517 to 1546):_x000D_ Three letters to the Pope_x000D_ Luther as a writer_x000D_ Activity of his latter years..._x000D_ German Princes at the Imperial Diet (1547):_x000D_ Luther and Charles V._x000D_ The Roman Empire_x000D_ Weakness of the Imperial power_x000D_ Alliance of the German opposition with France..._x000D_ A Burgher Family:_x000D_ Insight into the lower circles of German life_x000D_ Social superiority of the Protestant provinces..._x000D_ The Marriage and Housekeeping of a Young Student:_x000D_ Position of women in the middle ages_x000D_ Marriage considered as an alliance between families..._x000D_ Of a Patrician House (1526 to 1598):_x000D_ Hans Schweinichen's account of the riches of the Fuggers..._x000D_ German Nobility in the Sixteenth Century:_x000D_ False position in the nation_x000D_ Transition to modern life..._x000D_ German Ideas of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century..._x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ The Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648)_x000D_ Life and Manners of the Soldiers_x000D_ The Villagers and their Pastors_x000D_ Clippers of Money and Public Opinion_x000D_ The Cities_x000D_ The Peace (1650)_x000D_ Rogues and Adventurers_x000D_ Engagement and Marriage at Court (1661)_x000D_ Of the Homes of German Citizens_x000D_ German Life at the Baths in the Seventeenth Century_x000D_ Jesuits and Jews_x000D_ The Wasunger War (1747)…

This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the conference 'The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination Since 1500' in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world across the whole of the modern period. This volume highlights the ways in which cultural memory and historical consciousness have been shaped by experiences of discontinuity, focusing particularly on the reception of the Reformation, the literary and ideological heritage of the Enlightenment, and the representation of war, the Holocaust, and the reunification of Germany in contemporary literature and museum culture.