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Jahrhundert, vol. 33. Paul Hector Mair, Augsburg eight, pp. 54–5. Tom Scott, Freiburg and the Breisgau. Town-country relatives within the age of Refor-mation and Peasants’ battle, Oxford 1986, pp. 110–13; Thomas Robisheaux, Rural Society and the quest for Order in Early sleek Germany, Cambridge 1989, esp. pp. 118ff. equally, as Norbert Schindler has proven, the calendar may act as a type of box for violent, disruptive behaviour: behaviour of a much more bodily violent, disruptive type was once anticipated at carnival, constituting a part of its enjoyable. Norbert Schindler, ‘Karneval, Kirche und verkehrte Welt. Zur Funktion der Lachkultur im sixteen. Jahrhundert’, in idem, Widerspenstige Leute, pp. 163ff. Stadtarchiv Augsburg (hereafter stated as StadtAA), Urgichtensammlung (hereafter brought up as Urg. ), 26 Feb. —5 March 1587, Thomas Mair and Adam Schneeweiss. The dance additionally happened on carnival Monday. StadtAA, Urg. , 10 Oct. 1587, Thomas Mair, with Urgicht of March. For Paul Hector Mair’s description of this struggle, see Chroniken der deutschen Städte, vol. 33, Augsburg eight, pp. 65–6. ‘lustig zu sehen und warlich wol angethan mit harnasch’, Die Chroniken der deutschen Städte vom 14. bis ins sixteen. Jahrhundert, vol. 15, p. 214. ‘Doch/ob yemandt den anndern dermass/mit Schmhlichen/errletzlichen wortten/beleget vnd antastet/Das der Verletzt/zu rettung seiner Eren/ am Ersten/zum Wrzucken geraitzt vnd verursacht wurd’, Augsburg/ Zucht vnd Pollicey Ordnung, 1537. Hans Sachs, ‘Comedia. Die ungleichen kinder Eve, wie sie Gott, der herr, anredt’, in von Keller and Goethe (eds), Hans Sachs, vol. 1, pp. 53–87. Hans Sachs, vol. 1, pp. 62–4. Sachs, ‘Comedia’; and spot additionally Von Eua der ersten Mutter/vnd Abel/Seth/vnd Cain…. Aus einer des Herrn Philippi Melanthonis Epistel/gezogen vnd verdeutscht, 1544, fo. B ii v, and Erasmus Alberus, Ein Gesprech/von der verfurung der Schlangen vnd der Gnade Christi vnsers Heilandts/zwischen BLOOD AND CODPIECES a hundred twenty five 38 39 forty forty-one forty two forty three Gott/Adam/Eua/ Abel vnd Cain, Nuremberg, Friedrich Gutknecht n. d. , fos c iv v-C v r. See Gerald Strauss, Luther’s residence of studying: Indoctrination of the younger within the German Reformation, Baltimore, MD and London 1978 on sixteenthcentury tools of catechism instructing. Erasmus Alberus, fos b v v-b vi r. Cain says: ‘wenn ich Blut sehe/das ist mein lust’; ‘Wenn ich gern gezwagen were/so wolt ich wider vnder die Knaben auff die Gassen lauffen/da wolten wir vns einander zwagen/das vns das Blut die Backen herab kendeln sol. ’ Sachs has the same passage. See, for nice illustrative fabric, Gundula Wolter, Die Verpackung des männlichen Geschlechts. Eine illustrierte Kulturgeschichte der Hose, Marburg 1988. at the difficulties of representing the male nude, see Potts, ‘Beautiful our bodies and demise Heroes’. an analogous nervousness concerning the approach men’s extravagant gown sort could lead them to female is to be present in Joachim Westphal’s Hoffartsteufel, Stambaugh (ed. ), Teufelbücher, vol. three, p. 185: ‘wenn sich die guy und junge gesellen so zart und Weibisch überkleiden und auff den kauff polliren’.