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  • Museum Guide Berlin 2015

    by Claudia Stein ...
    Did you know that the athletes' village of the 1936 Olympic Games can still be visited? Or that an abandoned bunker hosts today one of the most fascinating private art collections? There are more than 170 exciting museums, venues, memorials and places with "museum philosophy". Sorted by district, each place is listed with contact information, opening hours, entrance fee and a brief description ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

    by Roger Cooter, Claudia Stein ...
    A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter’s contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual and methodological shifts in historiography. In particular, he examines the “double bind” of postmodernism and biological or neurological modeling that ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany

    by Claudia Stein ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This book explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the 'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of Augsburg between 1495 and 1630. Rejecting the imposition of modern conceptions of disease upon the past, it reveals how early modern medical theory facilitated enormous flexibility in defining disease, and how disease identification was a local matter, and one of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Witch Craze

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches-of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops-and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Oedipus and the Devil

    Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

    A Guide to Research

    Edited by David M. Whitford ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany

    by Joy Wiltenburg ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Medieval German Literature

    A Companion

    by Marion Gibbs, Sidney M. Johnson ...
    Medieval German Literature provides a comprehensive survey of this Germanic body of work from the eighth century through the early fifteenth century. The authors treat the large body of late-medieval lyric poetry in detail for the first time. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Panaceia's Daughters

    Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

    by Alisha Rankin ...
    Panaceia's Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christianity – The Untold Tragedy

    A Picture of Historiography as a Conspiracy of Ignorance

    by Dr. Roman Landau ...
    Is it allowed to argue that the legendary “freedom of teaching and research” seems to be purely theoretical and in fact one should better speak of “the dictatorship of the professorate”? Or is this a problem of intellectual nature? Is the ignorance of our elite in (journalism and) academia owed to their (innocent, God-given) mental immaturity?It took me only a few visites to the State Archive ... Read more

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  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe

    Edited by Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, Hans de Waardt ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present day, the authors draw on a broad range of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD