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Katerina's Windows
"Examines 58 letters written by Katerina Lemmel, a wealthy Nuremberg widow, who in 1516 entered the abbey of Maria Mai in south Germany, and rebuilt the monastery using her own resources and the donations she solicited from relatives"--Provided by publisher.
Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany
Based on legal case studies, this book focuses on how gender discourse shaped the lives of prostitutes in medieval Germany.
Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany
Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Paradoxically, suicide by proxy exposed the limits of early modern state power, as governments struggled unsuccessfully to suppress the tactic. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality. Most frequently, however, they murdered young children, believing that their innocent victims would also enter paradise. The crime had cross-confessional appeal, as illustrated in case studies of Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna.
Crossing the Boundaries of Belief
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 religious conversion regularly tested the geographical and political boundaries separating Catholics and Protestants. In a period when church and state cooperated to impose religious conformity, regulate confessional difference, and promote moral and social order, the choice to convert was seen as a disruptive act of disobedience. Investigating the tensions inherent in the creation of religious commu...
Swords for Hire
In 1612, George Sinclair, an illegitimate son of a Caithness laird, became a Norwegian national hero. Along with almost 300 of his followers, Sinclair was killed in an ambush in Norway while marching to join the king of Sweden's army. Sinclair has legendary status in Norway but has been almost totally forgotten at home, just as the memory of thousands of other Scots who served as mercenaries in the armies of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries has faded into obscurity. In this book, James Miller tells how a considerable proportion of the able-bodied male population of Scotland at one time sought service on behalf of almost every dynasty and monarch on the continent. Some were fleeing from justice, others went to seek fame and fortune - and found it.
Weltliche Herrschaft in geistlicher Hand
Die Ausübung weltlicher Macht durch kirchliche Institutionen zählt zu den Besonderheiten des Alten Reiches und seiner Verfassung. Man spricht in diesem Sinne verkürzend vom „Geistlichen Staat", obwohl geistliches und weltliches Regiment - etwa in der Verwaltung - durchweg klar voneinander unterschieden wurden. In ihrer Person freilich vereinten Bischöfe, Äbte oder Äbtissinnen zwei „Charaktere" und repräsentierten sowohl die kirchliche als auch die weltliche Obrigkeit. Wenn beispielsweise noch heute sprichwörtlich die Rede ist vom „guten Leben unterm Krummstab", unterstellt man im Allgemeinen den geistlichen Territorien im Vergleich mit weltlichen Herrschaften eine untertanenfre...
