Auteur: Mary Lindemann

The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer t …

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Eur …

Patriots and Paupers carefully analyzes a crucial juncture in the history of a great city: Hamburg’s passage from the pre-modern into the modern world. Despite the relative wealth of historical liter …

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The acclaimed historian “creatively use[s] the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti . . . to examine 18th-century European life and politics” (Library Journal).   In Liaisons Dang …