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While the assumption of a sharp distinction between learned culture and lay society has been broadly challenged over the past three decades, the question of how
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
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Pages: 226
Authors: Joy Wiltenburg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-07 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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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 multipl
Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany
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Pages: 480
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Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions,
Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Margaret Brannan Lewis
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This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which bo
Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Matthew Dimmock
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Now in its third edition, Peter Burke's 1978 book Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its