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In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. Developments from this era had immediate impact on these societies, much of which resonates to the present day. Published in German seven years ago, Kaspar von Greyerz important overview and interpretation of the religions and cultures of Early Modern Europe now appears in the English language for the first time. He approaches his subject matter with the concerns of a social anthropologist, rejecting the...

Die Beitrage des Bandes analysieren fruhneuzeitliche Personenkonzepte. Sie nahern sich so einer grundlegenden Kategorie der europaischen Geschichte, der sog. Individualisierung. Seit Jacob Burckhardt wird Individualisierung als Ausgangspunkt moderner Lebenshaltungen in Europa gehandelt und gerne als nicht hinterfragbare Einheit verstanden. Der vorliegende Band untersucht Formen fruhneuzeitlicher Individualisierung, indem er diese in ihre einzelnen Bestandteile aufbricht.

In Mapping the 'I', Research on Self Narratives in Germany and Switzerland, the contributors, working with egodocuments (autobiographies, diaries, family chronicles and related texts), discuss various approaches to early modern concepts of the person and of personhood, the place of individuality within this context, genre and practices of writing. The volume documents the cooperation between the Berlin and Basel self-narrative research groups during its first phase (2000-2007). Next to addressing crucial methodological issues, it also demonstrates the richness of egodocuments as...