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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This groundbreaking book explains the widely accepted practice of feuding amongst noblemen and princes in its social context.
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A new and revisionary account of how the nobility grew and developed in late medieval and early modern Germany.
Language: en
Pages: 212
Pages: 212
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:
We tend to think of a feud as being a long established state of hostilities, especially between families or clans, which normally manifests itself in revengeful
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-05 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Attempts to present a coherent account of early modern German history are often hampered by the German equivalent of the Whig theory of history, by which all us
Language: en
Pages: 301
Pages: 301
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-05-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners,