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  • "Evil People"

    A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier

    by Johannes Dillinger ...
    Translated by Laura Stokes ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions—Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier—he provides a nuanced explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Routledge History of Witchcraft

    Edited by Johannes Dillinger ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft, from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    by Christopher B. B. Krebs ...
    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

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  • Witch Craze

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Slav Outposts in Central European History

    The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs

    by Dr Gerald Stone ...
    While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline and gradual erosion of the Wends from the time when they occupied all the land between the River ... Read more

    $36.49 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

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  • Hometown Religion

    Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia

    by David M. Luebke ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe. Everywhere they took root, ideas of evangelical reform disturbed the unity of religious observance on which political community was founded. By the third quarter of the sixteenth century, one or another form of Christianity had emerged as dominant in most territories of the Holy Roman Empire ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Enlightened Nationalism

    The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806-1848

    by Matthew Levinger ...
    Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848. Matthew Levinger challenges the conventional notion that Prussia lagged behind Western Europe in its political development, demonstrating that Prussian leaders embraced a distinctive program of political modernization in response to their country's defeat ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Forging a Multinational State

    State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War

    by John Deak ...
    Series series Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build.Deak has spent years mastering the structure and ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • An Introduction to German Pietism

    Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

    by Douglas H. Shantz ...
    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    An up-to-date portrait of a defining moment in the Christian story—its beginnings, worldview, and cultural significance.Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award of the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown CollegeAn Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with ... Read more

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