Death and a maiden : infanticide and the tragical history of Grethe Schmidt /

"On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Brunswick. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child. Filled with political int...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Myers, William David (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press [2011]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv177tfmg
جدول المحتويات:
  • In Brunswick, near Hannover City
  • Anatomy of a crime
  • A girl, purportedly a maiden
  • Family values
  • Common repute, women and neighbors
  • Corpus delicti
  • Knowledgeable women, the midwive's tale
  • Legal maneuvering and the question of torture
  • Terror, torture, and Grethe Schmidt
  • Case for a defense
  • Not even a sow, the case for Grethe
  • The thick wilderness of lies
  • The way to a confession
  • "Even to the devil himself"
  • Conclusion: many vigorous enemies.

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