Healing and harm: essays in honor of Mary Lindemann

Abstract

"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"--Publisher's description.

Contents

Preface / Benjamin Marschke -- Introduction / Erica Heinsen-Roach, Stephen A. Lazer and Daniel Riches -- Part I. Cities and Landscapes. Was the Early Modern City "a Space"? Reflections on a Contemporary Trend / Yair Mintzker ; Capitalism and Public Space in the Netherlands, or Why There Are No Monumental Squares in the Netherlands / Rudolf Dekker and Tessel Dekker ; Visiting the Resort: Gambling, Medicine, Tourism, and the Nineteenth-Century European Casino / Jared Poley -- Part II. Science and Medicine. Midwives and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Germany / Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ; Imagining Peace during the Thirty Years' War / Sigrun Haude ; Water's Dangers: Swimming and Drowning in the Early Modern Era / Alexander Schunka ; What I Learned from a Self-Confessed Archive Junkie: Searching for Black Germany in Nazi-Era Archives / Julia Roos -- Part III. Crime and Authority. Theatrum Poenarum: Psychological Space and Physical Torment in Early Modern Germany / W. David Myers ; Church Law, Church Discipline, and the Early German Enlightenment / Terence McIntosh ; Enlightenment Public as Judge: On the Fragments Controversy between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Melchior Goeze / William Boehart ; Narratives in Competition: Solving the Murder of the Baroness d'Ertrick in Basel, 1707 / Stephen A. Lazer -- Part IV. Diplomacy and Statecraft. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Violence in Diplomacy / Daniel Riches ; Diplomacy, Violence, and Early Modern State Formation: Gottorp's 1635 Embassy to Persia / Indravati Félicité ; Many Pleasant Tales: Francisci's Acerra Exoticorum (1672-1674) / Gerhild Scholz Williams ; The French Embassies and the French Military Expedition in Siam (Thailand) in the Age of Louis XIV / Lucien Bély ; 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. Love and Violence in the Italian Renaissance Imagination / Guido Ruggiero ; 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 ; Burdens of State: Viewing the Dynastic Widow as a Political and Economic Factor / Jill Bepler ; Autonomy and Captivity: The Case of Maria ter Meetelen in Morocco, 1731-1743 / Erica Heinsen-Roach ; Idioms of Distress in East German Petitions for Abortion / Donna Harsch ; Women, Witches, and Collective Memory / Jason P. Coy -- Afterword. On Humanism and Irreverence, a Tribute to Mary Lindemann / Suzanne Marchand.