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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

With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multipl

Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helpi

Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions,

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