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Executioner's Journal
Meister Frantz Schmidt of the Imperial City of Nuremberg
Häftad, 2016
339 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 …
Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany
Häftad, 1996
284 kr
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During the 16th century close to 30 German dukes, landgraves, margraves and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad - so mentally disordered that serious steps had to be taken to remove them from office or to obtain medical care for them. This book is the first to study these …
Lost Worlds
How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life Is So Hard Today
Inbunden, 1996
534 kr
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The publication of ""Lost Worlds"" introduces to English-speaking readers one of the most original and engaging historians in Germany today. Known for his work in historical demography, Arthur E. Imhof here branches out into folklore, religion, anthropology, psychology and the history of art. …
Shaman of Oberstdorf
Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night
Häftad, 1998
368 kr
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This is the story of a 16th-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago, the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumours of prophets and healers, of spirits and spectres, of witches …
Bacchus and Civic Order
The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany
Av B.Ann Tlusty
Inbunden, 2001
885 kr
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Lining the streets inside the city's gates, clustered in its centre, and thinly scattered among its back quarters were Augsberg's taverns and drinking rooms. These institutions ranged from the poorly lit rooms of backstreet wine sellers to the elaborate marble halls frequented by society's most …
Cautio Criminalis, or a Book on Witch Trials
Av Freidrich Spee von Langenfeld
Inbunden, 2003
781 kr
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In 1631, at the epicentre of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the ""Cautio Criminalis"", a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women …
German Discovery of the World
Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous
Häftad, 2009
326 kr
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Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable 'other' that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. ""The German Discovery of the World"" presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new …
Crossing the Boundaries of Belief
Geographies of Religious Conversion in Southern Germany, 1648-1800
Inbunden, 2014
598 kr
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In early modern Germany, religious conversion was a profoundly social and political phenomenon rather than purely an act of private conscience. Because social norms and legal requirements demanded that every subject declare membership in one of the state-sanctioned Christian churches, the act of …
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 …
Devil's Art
Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2020
485 kr
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In early modern Germany, soothsayers known as wise women and men roamed the countryside. Fixtures of village life, they identified thieves and witches, read palms, and cast horoscopes. German villagers regularly consulted these fortune-tellers and practiced divination in their everyday lives. Jason …
German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger
Inbunden, 2020
769 kr
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As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1666-1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, discovered by Roberto Zaugg and Craig …
Strange Brethren
Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608
Inbunden, 2022
529 kr
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In the sixteenth century, German cities and territories welcomed thousands of refugees fleeing the religious persecution sparked by the Reformation. As Strange Brethren reveals, these Reformation refugees had a profound impact on the societies they entered. Exploring one major destination for …
Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany
Inbunden, 2022
587 kr
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Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. Towns were crucial sites of music-making. Kevorkian explores how …
Bedazzled Saints
Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria
Inbunden, 2023
413 kr
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The defense of the cult of saints and relics was an essential element of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Europe. Facing attacks from Protestant denominations of all kinds, the Roman church redoubled its efforts to promote the veneration of its holy figures and to house their earthly remains in …
Great Elector's Table
The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia
Häftad, 2024
402 kr
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What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern GermanyIn politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a way that illuminates the social and cultural …
Great Elector's Table
The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia
Inbunden, 2024
1353 kr
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What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern GermanyIn politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a way that illuminates the social and cultural …
Devout and Defiant
How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions
Inbunden, 2025
1371 kr
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How Catholic pilgrims in an era of revolution challenged state authority and redefined the practice of their faith In the days of the French Revolution, as zealous government officials sought to sweep away the vestiges of a less enlightened age, they made a concerted effort to clamp down on …
Devout and Defiant
How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions
Häftad, 2025
433 kr
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How Catholic pilgrims in an era of revolution challenged state authority and redefined the practice of their faith In the days of the French Revolution, as zealous government officials sought to sweep away the vestiges of a less enlightened age, they made a concerted effort to clamp down on …
Bedazzled Saints
Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria
Häftad, 2025
329 kr
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Winner of the Sixteenth Century Society Gerald Strauss Book Award Shortlisted for the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Award The defense of the cult of saints and relics was an essential element of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Europe. Facing attacks from Protestant denominations of all …
Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany
Häftad, 2026
373 kr
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Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. Towns were crucial sites of music-making. Kevorkian explores how …
Obedient Germans? - a Rebuttal
New View of German History
Häftad, 1997
282 kr
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Drawing on his knowledge of mediaeval and early modern German history, Peter Blickle demonstrates that Germany was one of Europe's most intensive areas of local self-governance from 1300 to 1800. Arguing against the traditional image of a passive lower class, Blickle shows that the peasantry …
Cautio Criminalis, or a Book on Witch Trials
Av Freidrich Spee von Langenfeld
Häftad, 2003
302 kr
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In 1631, at the epicentre of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the ""Cautio Criminalis"", a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women …
German Discovery of the World
Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous
Inbunden, 2008
674 kr
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Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable ""other"" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. ""The German Discovery of the World"" presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new …
Evil People
A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier
Inbunden, 2009
654 kr
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Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions - Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier - he provides a nuanced explanation of …
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2013
674 kr
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With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics …
Enlightenment Underground
Radical Germany, 1680–1720
Inbunden, 2015
598 kr
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Martin Mulsow’s seismic reinterpretation of the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany won awards and renown in its original German edition, and now H. C. Erik Midelfort's translation and abridgement makes this sensational book available to English-speaking readers. Scouring manuscript collections …
Four Fools in the Age of Reason
Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2019
485 kr
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Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Whether jovial or cruel, mirth altered social and political relations.Outram takes us first to the court of Frederick William I of Prussia, who …
