![]() | Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World Subjects: Weinsberg Hermann von 1518–ca.1598; City council members -- Germany -- Cologne -- Biography; Cologne (Germany) -- History -- 16th century; Cologne (Germany) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Europe -- Chu; Paper Memory tells the story of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Matthew Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher named Hermann Weinsberg, whose personal writings allow us to witness firsthand the great transformations of early modernity: the crisis of the Reformation, the rise of an urban middle class, and the information explosion of the print revolution. This sensitive, faithful portrait reveals a man who sought to make sense of the changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world. Matthew Lundin is Assistant Professor of History at Wheaton College. |
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