German Culture Past and Present

Project Gutenberg's German Culture Past and Present, by Ernest Belfort Bax This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: German Culture Past and Present Author: Ernest Belfort Bax Release Date: January 27, 2007 [EBook #20461] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMAN CULTURE PAST AND PRESENT *** Produced by Jeannie Howse, Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the end of this document. GERMAN CULTURE PAST AND PRESENT BY ERNEST BELFORT BAX AUTHOR OF "JEAN PAUL MARAT," "THE RELIGION OF SOCIALISM," "THE ETHICS OF SOCIALISM," "THE ROOTS OF REALITY," ETC., ETC. LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. First published in 1915 [All rights reserved] [5] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTORY:—SITUATION IN 7 7 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY I. THE REFORMATION MOVEMENT 65 POPULAR LITERATURE OF THE II. 85 TIME THE FOLKLORE OF REFORMATION III. 99 GERMANY THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURYIV. 114 GERMAN TOWN COUNTRY AND TOWN AT THE END V. 122 OF THE MIDDLE AGES VI.