Paper Memory : A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World / Matthew Lundin.
Lundin, Matthew, author.
2012
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Title Paper Memory : A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World / Matthew Lundin.
Author Lundin, Matthew, author.
ISBN 9780674067653
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067653
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (318 p.) : 9 halftones
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674067653 doi
Summary Paper Memory tells the story of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Matthew Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher named Hermann Weinsberg, whose personal writings allow us to witness firsthand the great transformations of early modernity: the crisis of the Reformation, the rise of an urban middle class, and the information explosion of the print revolution. This sensitive, faithful portrait reveals a man who sought to make sense of the changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world. Weinsberg's decision to undertake the monumental task of documenting his life was astonishing, since he was neither prince nor bishop, but a Catholic lawyer from Cologne with no special claim to fame or fortune. Although he knew that his contemporaries would consider his work vain and foolish, he dutifully recorded the details of his existence, from descriptions of favorite meals to catalogs of his sleeping habits, from the gossip of quarreling neighbors to confessions of his private hopes, fears, and beliefs. More than fifty years-and thousands of pages-later, Weinsberg conferred his Gedenkbuch, or Memory Book, to his descendants, charging them to ensure its safekeeping, for without his careful chronicle, "it would be as if we had never been." Desperate to save his past from oblivion, Weinsberg hoped to write himself into the historical record. Paper Memory rescues this not-so-ordinary man from obscurity, as Lundin's perceptive and graceful prose recovers his extraordinary story.
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Series Harvard Historical Studies ; ; 179
In E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2012
E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2012
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter one A Secret Legacy
Chapter two My Father's House
Chapter three The Patriarch
Chapter four The Middle Is Best
Chapter five A Holy Household
Chapter six As If We Had Never Been
Chapter seven Spare No Quill, Ink, or Paper
Chapter eight A New World
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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