David M. Luebke is a historian of early modern Europe whose work focuses on the religions and political cultures of ordinary people the German-speaking lands. He is currently at work on a study of conflict and coexistence among the Christian religions in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, based on an analysis of religious life in twelve “hometowns” in the Westphalian bishopric of Münster, between 1553 and 1650. It bears the provisional title Hometown Religion: Conflict and Coexistence among the Christian Religions of Germany, 1553-1650.

Selected Publications:
His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).
The Counter-Reformation: Essential Readings (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999).
“Customs of Confession: Managing Religious Diversity in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Westphalia,” forthcoming in Howard Louthan, ed., Religion and Authority in Central Europe from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (New York: Berghahn, 2008).
“Participatory Politics,” forthcoming in Peter Wilson, ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2008).
“Of Liberty and the Upstalsboom: Urban-Rural Alliances and the Symbols of Freedom in Early Modern East Frisia,” in Christopher Ocker et al., eds., Politics and Reformations: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007), vol. 2, Communities, Polities, Nations, and Empires, 259-282.
“How to Become a Loyalist: Petitions, Self-Fashioning, and the Repression of Unrest (East Frisia, 1725-1727),” Central European History 38/3 (2005): 353-383.
“Signatures and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century Germany,” Journal of Modern History 76 (2004): 497-530.
“Symbolische Konstruktionen politischer Repräsentation im ländlichen Ostfriesland, 1719-1727,” Westfälische Forschungen 53 (2003): 183-214.
“Erfahrungen von Leibeigenschaft: Konturen eines Diskurses im Südschwarzwald, 1660-1740,” in Jan Klußmann, ed., Leibeigenschaft: Bäuerliche Unfreiheit in der frühen Neuzeit (Cologne: Böhlau, 2002), 175-197.
“Frederick the Great and the Celebrated Case of the Millers Arnold (1770-1779): A Reappraisal,” Central European History 32/4 (1999): 379-408.
“‘Naive Monarchism’ and Marian Veneration in Early Modern Germany,” Past & Present 154 (1997): 71-106.

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