Ira Dei, Material Culture, and Behavior in the Late Middle Ages: Evidence from German-speaking Europe

Abstract

In the German-speaking areas of the late Middle Ages, including central, south and southwest Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, discourse about material culture and behavior was sometimes extraordinarily rich. This is particularly true for all phenomena within the public sphere of life, especially those concerning outer appearance: dress, housing, festivities, food and meals taken outside the private house, and so on. In chronicles, laws, charters, travel literature, religious and secular literature, sermons, and in other forms, the discussion could become detailed and heated. The sources often deal with exceptional and special cases that had to be positively evaluated, or, more often, criticized, made fun of, condemned or prohibited.

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