The martial ethic in early modern Germany civic duty and the right of arms
For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was confirme...
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Hampshire, UK
Palgrave
2011
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| Series: | Early modern history: society and culture
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Keeping the peace: household, citizenship, and defense
- Duty and disorder
- Negotiating armed power: the control of arms and violence
- The age of the sword: orms of honor and fashion
- Keeping and bearing arms: norms of status and gender
- In and out of the commune: the social boundaries of citizenship
- Martial sports and the technological challenge
- Communities in conflict: competing jurisdictions in the Empire
- Citizens versus the state: household, community, and urban politics.