Healing and Harm (eBook)

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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. Water's 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 d'Ertrick 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: Gottorp's 1635 Embassy to Persia
Indravati Felicité

Chapter 14. Many Pleasant Tales: Francisci's Acerra Exoticorum (1672-1674)
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-Prussia's 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