Crime and culture in early modern Germany

Crime and culture in early modern Germany / Joy Wiltenburg.

She shows how the emotional inflections of crime stories influenced the growth of early modern public discourse, so often conceived in terms of rational exchange of ideas.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wiltenburg, Joy
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville, N.C. : University of Virginia Press, ©2012.
Series:	Studies in early modern German history.
Subjects:	Criminology > Germany > History. Crime > Sociological aspects. Crime in popular culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology. HISTORY > Europe > General. Crime in popular culture Crime > Sociological aspects Criminology Germany History
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Table of Contents:

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.