ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the concepts discussed in first part of this book. The part focuses on one of the senses, namely hearing, but do so from different perspectives. Religious invective was one of the ways –– and a problematic one in the eyes of local authorities – in which religious difference was experienced on a daily basis by early modern Augsburgers. Catholic music was performed in different spatial contexts and served various ends. Songs were used not only for internal purposes, such as to inculcate a greater understanding of religious doctrine, but for external ones as well, including the conversion of non-Catholics. Allyson Creasman examines the concrete policies put in place by local authorities to govern speech, a topic that has been analysed largely from the perspective of intellectual history.
