Professor Mary Lindemann inspired several generations of historical researchers in early modern history and culture. She has served as president of the German Studies Association and the American Historical Association and is the author of pathbreaking scholarly work in the history of medicine, urban space, diplomacy, and of women. In honor of her scholarship, service, and dedication, Healing and Harm gathers a group of leading scholars that includes her students, contemporaries, and those who have been inspired by her work to continue Lindemann’s prolific arguments and observations on early modern, central European and German history and culture.
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This volume contains consistently interesting and well-researched chapters by many top-notch scholars. Its breadth alone is an appropriate tribute to Lindemanns own work. Joel F. Harrington, Vanderbilt University
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Preface
Introduction
Erica Heinsen-Roach, Stephen A. Lazer, and Daniel Riches
Part I: Cities and Landscapes
Chapter
1. Was the Early Modern City a Space? Reflections on a
Contemporary Trend
Yair Mintzker
Chapter
2. Capitalism and Public Space in The Netherlands, or Why There Are
No Monumental Squares in The Netherlands
Rudolf Dekker and Tessel Dekker
Chapter
3. Visiting the Resort: Gambling, Medicine, Tourism and the
Nineteenth Century European Casino
Jared Poley
Part II: Science and Medicine
Chapter
4. Midwives and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Germany
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Chapter
5. Imagining Peace during the Thirty Years War
Sigrun Haude
Chapter
6. Waters Dangers: Swimming and Drowning in the Early Modern Era
Alexander Schunka
Chapter
7. What I Learned from a Self-Confessed Archive Junkie: Searching
for Black Germany in Nazi-Era Archives
Julia Roos
Part III: Crime and Authority
Chapter
8. Theatrum Poenarum: Psychological Space and Physical Torment in
Early Modern Germany
W. David Myers
Chapter
9. Church Law, Church Discipline, and the German Early
Enlightenment
Terence McIntosh
Chapter
10. Enlightenment Public as Judge: On the Fragments Controversy
between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Melchior Goeze
William Boehart
Chapter
11. Narratives in Competition: Solving the Murder of the Baroness
dErtrick in Basel, 1707
Stephen A. Lazer
Part IV: Diplomacy and Statecraft
Chapter
12. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Violence in Diplomacy
Daniel Riches
Chapter
13. Diplomacy, Violence and Early Modern State Formation: Gottorps
1635 Embassy to Persia
Indravati Felicité
Chapter
14. Many Pleasant Tales: Franciscis Acerra Exoticorum (16721674)
Gerhild Scholz Williams
Chapter
15. The French Embassies and The French Military Expedition in Siam
(Thailand) in The Age of Louis XIV
Lucien Bély
Chapter
16. Violation and Satisfaction: Great Britain-Hanover and
Brandenburg-Prussias Appeals to an Enlightenment Public in the Diplomatic
Crisis of 1729-1730
Benjamin Marschke
Part V: Women, Sexuality, and Gender
Chapter
17. Love and Violence in the Italian Renaissance Imagination
Guido Ruggiero
Chapter
18. Making Marriages Mixed: Religious Pluralization, Ritual, and the
Formation of Intra-Christian Marriage Barriers in Late Sixteenth- and Early
Seventeenth-Century Germany
David Martin Luebke
Chapter
19. Burdens of State: Viewing the Dynastic Widow as a Political and
Economic Factor
Jill Bepler
Chapter
20. Autonomy and Captivity: The Case of Maria ter Meetelen in
Morocco, 1731-1743
Erica Heinsen-Roach
Chapter
21. Idioms of Distress in East German Petitions for Abortion
Donna Harsch
Chapter
22. Women, Witches, and Collective Memory
Jason Coy
Afterword: On Humanism and Irreverence, a Tribute to Mary Lindemann
Suzanne Marchand
Index
Erica Heinsen-Roach taught at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg until 2020 and is currently an independent scholar.
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