FOREWORD
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1. Cultural Significance of the German Citizen from Late Medieval to Early Modern Period
2. On Terminology: Bürgertum, Culture, Ways of Living, and Environment
3. The Citizens and Rural Society
CHAPTER TWO THE CHARACTER OF THE EARLY MODERN CITY IN THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
1. Geography
2. Vedute: The Ideal and the Reality of the City
3. City Planning and Construction
4. The Ideal and the Planned City
5. The Burgher’s House
6. Cobblestones and Filth
CHAPTER THREE THE BURGHERS’ LIFESTYLE
1. The “Burgher House” and its Furnishings: Problems of Research
2. Spheres of Life
3. Household Culture: Lighting and Heating
4. Organization of the Rooms
5. Furnishings and Living Atmosphere
6. Periodization
7. Economic and Social Prerequisites for Change
CHAPTER FOUR ASPECTS OF THE DAILY LIFE
1. Organization of Time, Daily Routine
2. Meals and Drinks
3. Table Manners
4. Clothing and Fashion
5. Hygiene
6. Lifestyles and the Process of Civilization
CHAPTER FIVE THE BURGHER FAMILY
1. Aspects of Recent Research
2. The “Whole House”
3. Values
4. New Avenues for Research
CHAPTER SIX HISTORICAL MICROCOSMS: THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
1. Youth and Education
2. Marriage
3. Death
CHAPTER SEVEN BEYOND DAILY LIFE: AMUSEMENTS, MUSIC AND DANCE, ENTERTAINMENT AND THEATER
1. Leisure and Free-time
2. Music and Dance
3. Theater
4. 18th Century Developments: The Concert Hall and Burgher Theater with Circles and Balconies
CHAPTER EIGHT BÜRGERTUM AND THE ARTS
1. Art as History
2. The Rise of the Artist
3. Works of Art in the City
4. Urban Architecture
5. The Art Market and the Collecting of Art
6. The Cultural Centrality of Church and Court in the 17th and 18th Centuries
CHAPTER NINE BÜRGERTUM AND HUMANISM
1. Italy and Germany
2. Paths of Cultural Transfer
3. Significance of the Urban World for the Expansion of Humanist Culture
4. Humanism and Education
CHAPTER TEN BURGHER CULTURE IN THE BAROQUE AND ENLIGHTENMENT: PHASES AND INSTITUTIONS
1. The Problem of Periodization and Epochs
2. Institutions and Means of Discourse
3. The Enlightenment and Criticism: Tendencies towards Politicization
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE CULTURAL FUNCTION OF THE GERMAN CITY IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES
CHAPTER TWELVE THE WAY TO ARCADIA
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE INVENTION OF THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN BOURGEOISIE: ARTWORKS AS SOURCES AND LIEUX DE MÉMOIRE
1. Pictures of German Burgher Culture during the Early Modern Period: Some Remarks Concerning Quellenkritik
2. The Image of the Burgher: What Portraits Tell Us
3. The German Bildungsbürgertum (the Educated Middle Classes) and the Cultural History of Early Modern Europe: The Image of the Nineteenth Century
4. The Lieux de mémoire
5. Was There an Early Modern German National Culture?
SOURCES
SOURCE ONE DÜRER From the letters and the art-theory of the painter Albrecht Dürer
SOURCE TWO COCHLAEUS Nuremberg in the descriptions of Johannes Cochlaeus
SOURCE THREE SACHS The “Nightingale of Wittenberg”
SOURCE FOUR PLATTER The Memoir of Felix Platter
SOURCE FIVE GROBIANUS A document of the civilisation process
SOURCE SIX MONTAIGNE Montaigne’s Tagebuch einer Badereise (Diary of a Journey to Spas)
SOURCE SEVEN MAGDALENE AND BALTHASAR PAUMGARTNER From the Correspondence between Magdalena and Balthasar Paumgartner
SOURCE EIGHT WEINSBERG Memorabilities of Cologne from the 16th Century
SOURCE NINE CORYATE Thomas Coryate’s ‘Crudities’
SOURCE TEN JACOB WAGNER REGINBALD MOEHNER The Imperial City of Augsburg during the Thirty Year’s War
SOURCE ELEVEN HOLL The “house chronicle” of the architect Elias Holl
SOURCE TWELVE SANDRART Joachim von Sandrart’s “Teutsche Akademie” (German Academy)
SOURCE THIRTEEN FLORINUS The House-Rules
SOURCE FOURTEEN RIESBECK From the “Letters of a travelling Frenchman”
SOURCE FIFTEEN WEKHRLIN An Enlightened Glance at Old Cities: Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin’s Anselmus Rabiosus
SOURCE SIXTEEN LESSING Enlightenment and tolerance: The “Ringparabel” (parable of the ring) in Lessing’s Nathan the Wise
SOURCE SEVENTEEN KANT An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
SOURCE EIGHTEEN ALLGEMEINES LANDRECHT Legal Rules for Relations between Parents and Children
SOURCE NINETEEN GOETHE From Goethes “Poetry and Truth”: Frankfurt in the 18th century
SOURCE TWENTY STAËL Germaine de Staël, On Germany
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (Works after 1991)
INDEX
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