Healing and Harm

Erica Heinsen-Roach taught at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg until 2020 and is currently an independent scholar.

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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