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

Blackbourn, David

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ISBN 10: 0679418431 ISBN 13: 9780679418436

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

Riassunto

In an intriguing study of the subtle interplay between politics and religion, a historian recounts the story of the 1876 appearance in a vision of the Virgin Mary in the German town of Marpingen and its dramatic impact on Germany in the crisis-laden aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War.

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David Blackbourn is Professor of History and Senior Associate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard.

David Blackbourn was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1949, and studied history at Cambridge University, where he was Research Fellow of Jesus College from 1973 to 1976. He taught at London University from 1976 to 1992, before moving to Harvard, where he is Professor of History and Senior Associate of the Center for European Studies. His work has appeared in six languages, and he is the author of Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980), The Peculiarities of German History (with Geoff Eley, 1984), and Populists and Patricians (1987), and co-editor (with Richard Evans) of The German Bourgeoisie (1991). He lives with his wife and two children in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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g 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Pondering what had happened from another pers

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679418431
• ISBN 13: 9780679418436
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
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