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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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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DeKalb :
Northern Illinois University Press
[2011]
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv177tfmg |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.