CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables vii

Notes on Text x
Introduction. The Dynamics of Early Modern Naming 1
Joel E Harrington

Part I. Naming the Past

1. Picards, Karlstadtians, and Oecolampadians: (Re)Naming
the Early Eucharistic Controversy 15
Amy Nelson Burnett
2. From the Council to the Founding Myth: How the Spirit of Trent
Came to be Named 40
Birgit Emich
3. Triplets: The Holy Roman Empires Birthing of Catholics,
Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648 62
David Mayes

Part II. Naming and Organizing Knowledge

4. Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation
Germany 87
Alexander/. Fisher
5. Naming the Ambiguous: Income and Royal Service in the
Seventeenth Century 109
Heiko Droste
6. The Mystery of the St. Sebastian Lazareth: Mapping
Place-Names and Contagious Disease Hospitals in
Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg 125
Amy Newhouse
7. Global Goods in Local Languages: Naming Cotton Textiles
in the Swiss Cantons 149
John Jordan and Gabi Schopf
 Part III. Naming the Other
8. Naming the Turk and the Moor: Prehistories of Race 173
Carina L. Johnson
9. Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in
the Court of Law and Public Opinion 204
Ashley L. Elrod
10. Confessionisten, Calvinisten, Tibben: Nomenclatures
of Legal Exclusion in Northwestern Germany, 1535-1650 229
David AL Luebke
Afterword. Names All the Way Down: Naming Practices in
Early Modern Germany and Early Modern Historiography 250
Randolph C. Head
Index 262