Private Correspondence in Germany in the Reformation Era: A Forgotten Source for the History of the Burgher Family
Over the last two decades German family history has developed into an increasingly specialized field of research. Through the work of demographic, economic, social, legal, and culturalhistorians (the "sentiments school"), much has been learned about the burgher family. There is still, howe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2001
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2001, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 931-951 |
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| Summary: | Over the last two decades German family history has developed into an increasingly specialized field of research. Through the work of demographic, economic, social, legal, and culturalhistorians (the "sentiments school"), much has been learned about the burgher family. There is still, however, a lack of knowledge about just how burghers in the late medieval and Reformation era actually lived their lives and what "family" meant to them. Private letters have begun to fill that gap, and those of Nuremberg burgher Linhart Tucher are an example of the new information they provide. During the plague of 1533, he placed his children in the safe hands of faraway relatives, while he and his wife continued to operate their Nuremberg business. From the correspondence back and forth from all sides, we discover the interaction of the nuclear family, the kin group, and the ancestral family-each an indispensable part of a contemporary multilayered concept of family. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3648985 |