Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Crime and Society: Patterns in Deed and Word 21 2 Law and the Rational Hero 42 3 Crime into Text 65 4 Crime and Christianity 88 5 Family Murders 111 6 Training the Imagination: Crime and the Inner Life 136 7 Staging the Lamentable Theater: Crime, Reason, and Emotion in the Seventeenth Century 163 Conclusion 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 225 Index 261 ...