Toward a New Sociocultural History of the Rural World of Early Modern Germany?

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 304-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Theibault
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
Early Modern Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Sociocultural History

CHARLES TAYLOR'SA SECULAR AGEAND SECULARIZATION IN EARLY MODERN GERMANY

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN HUNTER
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
Early Modern Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Community Church ◽  
Do So

In this essay I discuss the historical adequacy of Charles Taylor's philosophical history of secularization, as presented in hisA Secular Age. I do so by situating it in relation to the contextual historiography of secularization in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on developments in the German Empire. Considering how profoundly conceptions of secularization have been bound to competing religious and political programmes, we must begin our discussion by entertaining the possibility that modern philosophical and historiographic conceptions of secularization might themselves be outcrops of this unfinished competition. Peter Gordon has rightly observed that Taylor's philosophical history of secularization is a Catholic one, and that this is bound up with a specific (neo-Thomist) view of secularization as a theological and ecclesiological “disembedding” of rational subjectivity from its prior embodiment in a sacral body, community (church), and cosmos. Taylor delivers this history in his “reform master narrative”: that certain fundamental religious and cultural reforms or changes in early modern Europe wrought the secularization responsible for a modern epoch of “unbelief”.

Alas, a Lack: Trends in the Historiography of Pre-University Education in Early Modern Germany

1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 788-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan C. Karant-Nunn
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
Current Wave ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Early Modern Germany ◽  
History Of

Three major themes either have or ought to have affected the recent study of pre-university education in Germany between about 1400 and 1700. These are the Reformation and schooling; the so-called "new history" of education; and the current wave of research on literacy in Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter- Reformation Europe. The works cited should be considered illustrative of investigation carried out and issues debated during approximately the last twenty years.

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