Description: Lost Worlds : How Our European Ancestors Coped With Everyday Life and Why Life Is So Hard Today, Hardcover by Imhof, Arthur Erwin; Robisheaux, Thomas (TRN), ISBN 0813916593, ISBN-13 9780813916590, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Reconstructs the world and daily life of Johannes Hooss, a 17th-century farmer in a remote Hessian village, arguing that his precarious existence built values which transcended individual life and gave him a more stable world view than the one we have now. Explores the various systems that gave meaning to his world, including astrology, the folklore of the seasons, and Christian rituals of baptism, marriage, and death. Originally published in German in 1984 by C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Oscar Beck). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Book Title: Lost Worlds : How Our European Ancestors Coped With Everyday Life
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Lost Worlds : How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life Is So Hard Today
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication Year: 1996
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Europe / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.9 Oz
Author: Arthur E. Imhof
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Studies in Early Modern German History Ser.
Format: Hardcover
