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Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David

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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Intended Audience
Adults
Subject
Religion & Spirituality
Special Attributes
Dust Jacket
Type
Book
ISBN
9780679418436

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679418431
ISBN-13
9780679418436
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99675

Product Key Features

Book Title
Marpingen : Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany
Publication Year
1994
Topic
Europe / Germany, Christian Church / History, Christianity / Catholic, Christian Theology / Mariology
Language
English
Genre
Non-Classifiable, Religion, History
Author
David Blackbourn
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
32.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
93-037733
Reviews
"This highly original and elegantly written work is full of human interest and pregnant with implications for the history of Germany, of religion, and of rural society in general... Its scholarship is impeccable... It deserves to reach as wide a readership as the most celebrated historical study of a single village: Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. Unlike Montaillou, which was essentially based on the fortuitous survival of a single investigation, Marpingen rests on a wide variety of sources, ecclesiastical and lay. Its richness of texture results from constant, though subtle, shifts of perspective. The book illuminates the 'peculiarities of German history,' a subject on which Blackbourn has written brilliantly before." -- Daniel Johnson, The Times, London
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
232.91/7/094342
Synopsis
In a riveting work of historical research, David Blackbourn brings might the period surrounding the days in July 1876 when three young girls claimed to have sighted the Virgin Mary in the fields outside the German town of Marpingen. As journalists, priests, and sellers of pious memorabilia descended on Marpingen, the sleepy town rapidly metamorphosed into a cause celebre, with supporters and opponents referring to it as "the German Lourdes," and even "the Bethlehem of Germany." "It is an undeniable fact that the whole world is talking about Marpingen," wrote one sympathetic commentator. "Marpingen has become the center of events that have shaken the world," suggested another. Tens of thousands of pilgrims flocked to the town, prompting numerous claims of miraculous cures -- as well as military intervention, the dispatch of an undercover detective, parliamentary debate, and a dramatic trial. Pondering what had happened from another perspective was a man on whom the drama placed a heavy burden. "The events are so tremendous," wrote a Marpingen parish priest, "that a true account of them would already fill a book." Blackbourn, a leading historian of modem Germany, vividly portrays the Catholic world of the Bismarckian era through a detailed exploration of the changing social, economic, and community structures that formed its matrix, and provides a sensitive account of popular religious beliefs. Ranging widely across the fields of social, cultural, and political history, he powerfully evokes the crisis-laden atmosphere of the 1870s, revealing the subtle interplay between politics and religion, the changing nature of the family itself, and the ferment of ideas that fueled the great debate over "modernity." And in a final chapter, he looks ahead to the renewed apparitions of the Virgin in twentieth-century Marpingen against the background of war, Nazism, and the Cold War.A remarkable piece of historical detective work by an important scholar.
LC Classification Number
BT660.M37B57 1994

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