Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Johan Hjerpe and Enlightenment -- The artisan uprising and forms of mentality -- 1: Johan Hjerpe and the artisan uprising in support of the king's war -- 2: The coherence of the inconsistent self: some re£ections onmentality, identity and historiography -- The culture of letters and the measurement of thoughts -- 3: Burghers, common folk and books -- 4: New cultural history and old history of mentalities -- Johan Hjerpe's reading and the individual in history -- 5: Johan Hjerpe and the culture of Enlightenment -- 6: The individual and history -- Epilogue: In retrospect -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.