Keeping the Peace in the Village: Conflict and Peacemaking in Germany, 1650-1750

by Marc R. Forster

Keeping the Peace in the Village is a study of how rural society evolved in the century after 1650. Based on extensive research in German archives, particularly in local court records, the book examines how rural people sought peace in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War. An understandable desire for peace and order co-existed with the reality of day-to-day conflicts common to any face-to-face community. An important consequence of the tension...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198898479
• ISBN13: 9780198898474
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"