Introduction -- Keeping the Peace: Household, Citizenship, and Defense -- Duty and Disorder -- Negotiating Armed Power: The Control of Arms and Violence -- The Age of the Sword: Norms of Honor and Fashion -- Keeping and Bearing Arms: Norms of Status and Gender -- In and Out of the Commune: The Social Boundaries of Citizenship -- Martial Sports and the Technological Challenge -- Communities in Conflict: Competing Jurisdictions in the Empire -- Citizens versus the State: Household, Community, and Urban Politics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Keeping the Peace: Household, Citizenship, and Defense -- Duty and Disorder -- Negotiating Armed Power: The Control of Arms and Violence -- The Age of the Sword: Norms of Honor and Fashion -- Keeping and Bearing Arms: Norms of Status and Gender -- In and Out of the Commune: The Social Boundaries of Citizenship -- Martial Sports and the Technological Challenge -- Communities in Conflict: Competing Jurisdictions in the Empire -- Citizens versus the State: Household, Community, and Urban Politics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms. Because the urban citizenry, made up of armed households, represented the armed power of the state, men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides. This book shows how civic institutions, peer pressure, and the courts all combined to create and repeatedly confirm masculine identity with blades and guns. Who had the right to bear arms, who was required to do so, who was forbidden or discouraged from using weapons: all these questions were central both to questions of political participation and to social and gender identity. As a result, there were few German households that were not stocked with weapons and few men who walked town streets without a side arm within easy reach. Laws aimed at preventing or containing violence could only be effective if they functioned in accordance with this framework.
"For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was confirmed with blades and guns"--
Ämnesord
Military ethics -- Germany -- History. (LCSH)
Military socialization -- Germany -- History. (LCSH)
Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History. (LCSH)
Men -- Germany -- Attitudes -- History. (LCSH)
Politics and Government. (ukslc)
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. (bisacsh)
HISTORY -- Military -- Weapons. (bisacsh)
HISTORY -- Social History. (bisacsh)
HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century. (bisacsh)
Peace studies & conflict resolution -- Germany -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)
European history -- Germany -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)
Social & cultural history -- Germany -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)
General & world history -- Germany -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)
Social & cultural anthropology -- Germany -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)