Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
New York: Knopf, 1994. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxxiv + 510pp. Gilt-lettered beige cloth spine, cream papered boards. Notes, bibliography & index. From the publisher: "In a riveting work of historical research, David Blackbourn brings light to 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. 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." A few light bumps to lower edges, otherwise a tight, clean VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket (dust jacket very slightly rubbed on rear panel). Item #46935
ISBN: 0679418431
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