Private Correspondence in Germany in the Reformation Era: A Forgotten Source for the History of...

Discusses private letters that show how burghers in Germany's late medieval and Reformation era lived their lives and what family meant to them. Correspondence of the Nuremberg burgher Linhart Tucher to his family during the plague of 1533; Interaction of the nuclear family, the kin group and the ancestral family; Value of letters as sources for the history of the family on the threshold of the modern era.