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Introduction: Witch-women and madmen : digging postholes with H.C. Erik Midelfort / Thomas A. Brady, Jr. -- pt. 1. Laity. Serfs "are not cows and calves" : Urbanus Rhegius's theological effort to legitimate unfreedom and to promote personal liberty / Peter Blickle ; translated by Randolph C. Head -- Layers of literacy in a sixteenth-century case of fraud / Helmut Graser and B. Ann Tlusty -- Immigration and civic identity in sixteenth-century Cologne / Janis M. Gibbs -- Melancholy murderers : suicide by proxy and the insanity defense / Kathy Stuart -- pt. 2. Clergy. Venus in Wittenberg : Cranach, Luther, and sensuality / Lyndal Roper -- "The much married Michael Kramer" : evangelical clergy and bigamy in Ernestine Saxony, 1522-1542 / Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer -- Penance, confession, and the self in early modern Lutheranism / Thomas Robisheaux -- Crime and Christianity in early sensationalism / Joy Wiltenburg -- pt. 3. Humanists, doctors, and professors. Reuchlin and the University of Tübingen / Sönke Lorenz ; translated by Randolph C. Head and Hiltrud Schöntag -- Welfare land : Johannes Eberlin von Günzburg and the reformation of folly / David Lederer -- Alexander Seitz and the medical calling : physic, faith, and reform / Robin B. Barnes -- Johannes Crato von Krafftheim (1519-1585) : imperial physician, Irenicist, and anti-paracelsian / Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr. and Jole Shackelford -- Witchcraft and the media / Wolfgang Behringer -- pt. 4. Jurists and magistrates. Experiments in pain : reason and the development of judicial torture / Laura Stokes -- "Lies as truth" : policing print and oral culture in the early modern city / Allyson F. Creasman -- Leprosy and the defeat of diagnosis in sixteenth-century Germany / Mitchell Lewis Hammond -- Collecting testimony and parsing texts in Zurich : documentary strategies for defending reformed identities in the Thurgau, 1600-1656 / Randolph C. Head -- Conclusion: The good, the bad, and the airborne : levitation and the history of the impossible in early modern Europe / Carlos M.N. Eire. |
