Civic culture and everyday life in early modern Germany

Introduction

The character of the early modern city in the Holy Roman Empire

The burghers' lifestyle

Aspects of the daily life

The burgher family

Historical microcosms : the life of the individual

Beyond daily life : amusements, music and dance entertainment and theater

Bürgertum and the arts

Bürgertum and humanism

Burgher culture in the Baroque and Enlightenment : phases and institutions

The cultural function of the German city in the 17th and 18th centuries

The way to Arcadia

The invention of the cultural history of the German bourgeoisie : artworks as sources and Lieux de mémoire

Sources.