Healing and Harm: Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association, 29)

Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part I — Cities and Landscapes
	Chapter 1 — Was the Early Modern City “a Space”? Reflections on a Contemporary Trend
	Chapter 2 — Capitalism and Public Space in the Netherlands, or Why There Are No Monumental Squares in the Netherlands
	Chapter 3 — Visiting the Resort: Gambling, Medicine, Tourism, and the Nineteenth-Century European Casino
Part II — Science and Medicine
	Chapter 4 — Midwives and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Germany
	Chapter 5 — Imagining Peace during the Thirty Years’ War
	Chapter 6 — Water’s Dangers: Swimming and Drowning in the Early Modern Era
	Chapter 7 — What I Learned from a Self-Confessed Archive Junkie: Searching for Black Germany in Nazi-Era Archives
Part III — Crime and Authority
	Chapter 8 — Theatrum Poenarum: Psychological Space and Physical Torment in Early Modern Germany
	Chapter 9 — Church Law, Church Discipline, and the Early German Enlightenment
	Chapter 10 — Enlightenment Public as Judge: On the Fragments Controvery between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Melchior Goeze
	Chapter 11 — Narratives in Competition: Solving the Murder of the Baroness d’Ertrick in Basel, 1707
Part IV — Diplomacy and Statecraft
	Chapter 12 — Inclusion, Exclusion, and Violence in Diplomacy
	Chapter 13 — Diplomacy, Violence, and Early Modern State Formation: Gottorp’s 1635 Embassy to Persia
	Chapter 14 — Many Pleasant Tales: Francisci’s Acerra Exoticorum (1672–1674)
	Chapter 15 — The French Embassies and the French Military Expedition in Siam (Thailand) in the Age of Louis XIV
	Chapter 16 — Violation and Satisfaction: Great Britain-Hanover and Brandenburg-Prussia’s Appeals to an Enlightenment Public in the Diplomatic Crisis of 1729–1730)
Part V — Women, Sexuality, and Gender
	Chapter 17 — Love and Violence in the Italian Renaissance Imagination
	Chapter 18 — Making Marriages Mixed: Religious Pluralization, Ritual, and the Formation of Intra-Christian Marriage Barriers in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Germany
	Chapter 19 — Burdens of State: Viewing the Dynastic Widow as a Political and Economic Factor
	Chapter 20 — Autonomy and Captivity: The Case of Maria ter Meetelen in Morocco, 1731–1743
	Chapter 21 — Idioms of Distress in East German Petitions for Abortion
	Chapter 22 — Women, Witches, and Collective Memory
Afterword — On Humanism and Irreverence, a Tribute to Mary Lindemann
Index