Paper Memory : A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World.

By:

Lundin, Matthew

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674067653

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paper MemoryDDC classification:

943/.551403092 B

LOC classification:

DD901

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Secret Legacy -- 2. My Father's House -- 3. The Patriarch -- 4. The Middle Is Best -- 5. A Holy Household -- 6. As If We Had Never Been -- 7. Spare No Quill, Ink, or Paper -- 8. A New World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary: Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.

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Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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