Crime and culture in early modern GermanyJoy Wiltenburg.

Wiltenburg, Joy.

Crime and culture in early modern GermanyJoy Wiltenburg. - Charlottesville, N.C. : University of Virginia Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Studies in early modern German history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crime and society : patterns in deed and word -- Law and the rational hero -- Crime into text -- Crime and Christianity -- Family murders -- Training the imagination : crime and the inner life -- Staging the lamentable theater : crime, reason, and emotion in the seventeenth century -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.



9780813933030


Criminology--History.--Germany
Crime--Sociological aspects.
Crime in popular culture.


Electronic Books.

HV6022 / .C756 2012