Healing and Harm

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

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionErica Heinsen-Roach, Stephen A. Lazer, and Daniel RichesPart I: Cities and LandscapesChapter 1. Was the Early Modern City “a Space”? Reflections on a Contemporary TrendYair MintzkerChapter 2. Capitalism and Public Space in The Netherlands, or Why There Are No Monumental Squares in The NetherlandsRudolf Dekker and Tessel DekkerChapter 3. Visiting the Resort: Gambling, Medicine, Tourism and the Nineteenth Century European CasinoJared PoleyPart II: Science and MedicineChapter 4. Midwives and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern GermanyMerry Wiesner-HanksChapter 5. Imagining Peace during the Thirty Years’ WarSigrun HaudeChapter 6. Water’s Dangers: Swimming and Drowning in the Early Modern EraAlexander SchunkaChapter 7. What I Learned from a Self-Confessed Archive Junkie: Searching for Black Germany in Nazi-Era ArchivesJulia RoosPart III: Crime and AuthorityChapter 8. Theatrum Poenarum: Psychological Space and Physical Torment in Early Modern GermanyW. David MyersChapter 9. Church Law, Church Discipline, and the German Early EnlightenmentTerence McIntoshChapter 10. Enlightenment Public as Judge: On the Fragments Controversy between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Melchior GoezeWilliam BoehartChapter 11. Narratives in Competition: Solving the Murder of the Baroness d’Ertrick in Basel, 1707Stephen A. LazerPart IV: Diplomacy and StatecraftChapter 12. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Violence in DiplomacyDaniel RichesChapter 13. Diplomacy, Violence and Early Modern State Formation: Gottorp’s 1635 Embassy to PersiaIndravati FelicitéChapter 14. Many Pleasant Tales: Francisci’s Acerra Exoticorum (1672–1674)Gerhild Scholz WilliamsChapter 15. The French Embassies and The French Military Expedition in Siam (Thailand) in The Age of Louis XIVLucien BélyChapter 16. Violation and Satisfaction: Great Britain-Hanover and Brandenburg-Prussia’s Appeals to an Enlightenment Public in the Diplomatic Crisis of 1729-1730Benjamin MarschkePart V: Women, Sexuality, and GenderChapter 17. Love and Violence in the Italian Renaissance ImaginationGuido RuggieroChapter 18. Making Marriages Mixed: Religious Pluralization, Ritual, and the Formation of Intra-Christian Marriage Barriers in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century GermanyDavid Martin LuebkeChapter 19. Burdens of State: Viewing the Dynastic Widow as a Political and Economic FactorJill BeplerChapter 20. Autonomy and Captivity: The Case of Maria ter Meetelen in Morocco, 1731-1743Erica Heinsen-RoachChapter 21. Idioms of Distress in East German Petitions for AbortionDonna HarschChapter 22. Women, Witches, and Collective MemoryJason CoyAfterword: On Humanism and Irreverence, a Tribute to Mary LindemannSuzanne MarchandIndex

“This volume contains consistently interesting and well-researched chapters by many top-notch scholars. Its breadth alone is an appropriate tribute to Lindemann’s own work.” • Joel F. Harrington, Vanderbilt University