7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles in the Swiss Cantons

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Notes on Text x
5. Introduction. The Dynamics of Early Modern Naming 1
6. Part I. Naming the Past
7. 1. Picards, Karlstadtians, and Oecolampadians: (Re)Naming the Early Eucharistic Controversy 13
8. 2. From the Council to the Founding Myth: How the Spirit of Trent Came to be Named 40
9. 3. Triplets: The Holy Roman Empire’s Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648 62
10. Part II. Naming and Organizing Knowledge
11. 4. Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation Germany 85
12. 5. Naming the Ambiguous: Income and Royal Service in the Seventeenth Century 109
13. 6. The Mystery of the St. Sebastian Lazareth: Mapping Place-Names and Contagious Disease Hospitals in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg 125
14. 7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles in the Swiss Cantons 149
15. Part III. Naming the Other
16. 8. Naming the Turk and the Moor: Prehistories of Race 171
17. 9. Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion 204
18. 10. Confessionisten, Calvinisten, Tibben: Nomenclatures of Legal Exclusion in Northwestern Germany, 1535–1650 229
19. Afterword. Names All the Way Down: Naming Practices in Early Modern Germany and Early Modern Historiography 250
20. Index 262