Wiltenburg, Joy. Crime and culture in early modern Germany

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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