Die Krise in der Frühen Neuzeit
Marian Füssel, Mark Häberlein , Philip R. Hoffmann-Rehnitz, Andrea Iseli, Sabine Kalff, André Krischer, Günther Lottes, Dirk Niefanger, Justus Nipperdey, Andreas Pecar, Konrad Petrovszky, Jan Marco Sawilla, Rudolf Schlögl, Eva Schuhmann, Andreas Suter, Eva Wiebel
The notion that societal developments are primarily shaped by periods of crisis, and that recurrent crises are a constitutive element of history, is characteristic of the self-perception of modern societies. This contributions to this volume delineate this highly contingent development. They examine the “invention of the crisis” as a form of societal self-perception within different historical contexts and outline the use and proliferation of the crisis model in different social and cultural contexts within western-, mid, southern and eastern Europe. In this way, the volume contributes to a coherent historicization of the crisis phenomenon.