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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809559203321

Autore

Wiltenburg Joy

Titolo

Crime and culture in early modern Germany / / Joy Wiltenburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-87229-3

0-8139-3303-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Studies in early modern German history

Disciplina

364.943/0903

Soggetti

Criminology - Germany - History

Crime - Sociological aspects

Crime in popular culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.