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