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Joel F. Harrington
A biography of the 14th century German theologian Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most…
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At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate - even progressive? The Faithful Executioner is the biography…
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Life and death, honour and shame in the turbulent sixteenth century.
The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem. This…
The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for…
Joel F. Harrington (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
This book examines the impact of the Reformation on the ideal and practice of marriage in sixteenth-century Germany.
This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to…
Paulina Tiepermann
Rezension / Literaturbericht aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Universitaet Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Werk "Die Ehre des Scharfrichters" von Joel F. Harrington, erzaehlt…
