Religion Und Kultur in Deutschland (1400-1800): Hrsg. Von Lyndal Roper. Aus Dem Amerikanischen Von Wolfgang Kaiser. Deutsche Erstausgabe (Veroffentlichungen Des Max-planck-instituts Fur Geschichte) - Hardcover

Robert W. Scribner (1941-1998) was one of the most stimulating and innovative social historians of the German reformation and of early modern Europe. This volume offers a representative selection of texts with an overview of the key issues, approaches, and results from his research. The focus of Scribner's work lies in the form of folklore and folk belief during the late Middle Ages, in which he was particularly interested. Scribner's writing strongly influenced religious, cultural, and art historical research on reformation and popular belief. Most of the content is here published for the first time in the German language. German text.

Lyndal Roper holds the prestigious chair of Regius Professor of History at Oxford: she is one of the most respected historians at work in Britain today. An expert on early modern Germany, her previous books include a study of witchcraft, Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.