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A Sixteenth-Century Book of Trades - Das Standebuch (Hardcover)
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A Sixteenth-Century Book of Trades - Das Standebuch (Hardcover)
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This extraordinary book of verses by Hans Sachs and engravings by
Jost Ammam offers a vivid portrait of city life in Renaissance
Germany. Covering 114 ranks (such as "king") and trades (including
"thimblemaker"), it provides a unique cross-section of the daily
life and social attitudes of the 16th century.Through words and
pictures, the reader can experience at first hand one of the first
instances of the small-town outlook that was to be an essential
part of European culture for centuries. Mixing popular attitudes,
such as the contempt for lawyers, Jews, and beggars, with precise
descriptions of occupations that range from clockmaking to fishing,
the book opens a direct window into the distant past.Das Standebuch
was also a remarkable pioneering venture by one of the leading
publishers of the day, Sigmund Feyerabend. Its complex publication
history, as well as the implications of its contents, are unraveled
in the Introduction by Theodore K. Rabb, who in this book has also
produced the first complete translation into modern English of the
doggerel verse for which Sachs was famous.
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