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17 produkter
Faithful Executioner
Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 2014
149 kr
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Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice …
The Faithful Executioner
Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 2013
249 kr
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THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL. In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the …
Executioner's Journal
Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg
Häftad, 2016
337 kr
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During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context in which they suffered at Schmidt’s hands, was …
Unwanted Child
The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany
Häftad, 2013
308 kr
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The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem. In The Unwanted Child, Joel F. Harrington skillfully recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell …
Unwanted Child
The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany
E-bok, 2009
664 kr
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The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society. The Unwanted Child skillfully recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to …
Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany
Inbunden, 1995
1526 kr
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This book examines the impact of the Protestant Reformation on both the ideal and practice of marriage in sixteenth-century Germany. Combining extensive archival work with a broad synthesis of scholarly research in legal, theological, and social history, it provides the most comprehensive …
Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany
Häftad, 2005
721 kr
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This book examines the impact of the Protestant Reformation on both the ideal and practice of marriage in sixteenth-century Germany. Combining extensive archival work with a broad synthesis of scholarly research in legal, theological, and social history, it provides the most comprehensive …
Executioner's Journal
Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg
Inbunden, 2016
780 kr
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During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context in which they suffered at Schmidt’s hands, was …
Dangerous Mystic
Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within
Inbunden, 2018
336 kr
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Life and times of the 14th century German spiritual leader Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most recently, Eckhart Tolle Meister Eckhart was a medieval Christian mystic whose wisdom powerfully appeals to …
Faithful Executioner
Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century
E-bok, 2013
108 kr
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Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice …
Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Av Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Joel F. Harrington
Inbunden, 2019
1936 kr
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Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the …
Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Av Joel F. Harrington, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
E-bok, 2019
335 kr
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Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the …
Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Av Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Joel F. Harrington
Häftad, 2026
526 kr
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Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the …
Der Scharfrichter - Ein Henkersleben im Nürnberg des 16. Jahrhunderts
Inbunden, 2019
124 kr
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Unwanted Child
The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2009
591 kr
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The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society. The "Unwanted Child" skillfully recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to …
