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By Terence McIntosh (Chapel Hill, North Carolina University Press, 1997) 317 pp. $34.95 'No shit-hens fly over the town wall.' With this memorable eighteenth-century expression, Walker captured the fundamental antagonism [...]

By Sheilagh Ogilvie (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997) 513 pp. $80.00 'No shit-hens fly over the town wall.' With this memorable eighteenth-century expression, Walker captured the fundamental antagonism between [...]

'No shit-hens fly over the town wall.' With this memorable eighteenth-century expression, Walker captured the fundamental antagonism between small-town and rural life in early modern Germany.(1) He argued that small [...]

More and more issues have come to be included under the rubric 'the social history of the Reformation.' Where once historians focused on the reception of Luther's ideas in an [...]

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first general textbook on the history of mentalities in preindustrial Europe. Up till now, work on the history of mentalities has [...]