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Author:   Maria R. Boes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138379756

ISBN 10:   1138379751
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   06 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Part I The City’s Profile: Socio-economic and religious background; Legal/judicial setting. Part II Criminal Detection Methods: Public appearance and criminal judicial practices in early modern Germany. Part III Cultural and Religious/Racial Impediments: On cultural crossroads: gypsies on trial; Targeted twice: Jews as criminal and judicial victims; Enough is enough: two Jewish resistance trials. Part IV Gender Issues: Women and the penal system in Frankfurt am Main, 1562-1696; Women bonding: collaborative infanticide; Choosing death over shame: unwed mothers and infanticide. Part V Sexual Behavior: On trial for sodomy in early modern Germany. Part VI Military Ascendency: Judicial treatments of soldiers for killings unrelated to the battle field. Part VII Desperate Acts: Escapes from judgment: self-inflicted deaths of criminal suspects; Conclusion; Index.

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'... I strongly recommend this book to readers interested in mechanisms of social discipline and criminal prosecution, religious persecution and toleration, and gender and sexuality in early modern Germany. Boes's careful archival research brings to life complicated and intimate stories from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Frankfurt that speak to each of these topics in important ways.' Renaissance Quarterly '... Boes's Crime and Punishment provides many interesting case studies and good insight into early modern Germany's criminal practices related to minorities and marginalized social groups.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'The book's main strength is in its detailed accounts of individual cases, which offer potential insights into both social history and legal thinking. Her cases on Gypsies offer interesting evidence on their uses of language and their interactions with the Christian community.' German History

'... I strongly recommend this book to readers interested in mechanisms of social discipline and criminal prosecution, religious persecution and toleration, and gender and sexuality in early modern Germany. Boes’s careful archival research brings to life complicated and intimate stories from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Frankfurt that speak to each of these topics in important ways.' Renaissance Quarterly '... Boes's Crime and Punishment provides many interesting case studies and good insight into early modern Germany's criminal practices related to minorities and marginalized social groups.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'The book's main strength is in its detailed accounts of individual cases, which offer potential insights into both social history and legal thinking. Her cases on Gypsies offer interesting evidence on their uses of language and their interactions with the Christian community.' German History

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Dr. Maria R. Boes is Professor Emerita of West Chester University, Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Early Modern Germany.

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