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Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Viking Pr
Publication date August 1, 1999
Pages 348
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780670883929
ISBN-10 0670883921
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.25 by 9.75 in.
Weight 1.40 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $29.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
An intriguing study of life in Germany during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe the social and political climate of the period as well as the personal lives of individual citizens and their families. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Product Description: An acclaimed historian chronicles the fascinating Reformation period in Germany through the vivid portrayal of five families.

As he did in his much praised and highly successful The Burgermeister's Daughter, Steven Ozment analyzes and weaves together primary sources to create a compelling account of German life in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. From private papers and archives--account books, letters, legal records, journals--emerge fascinating stories rescued from history: the complicated courtship dance of two politically prominent families; the joy of parenthood for a middle-aged couple when, after losing their first nine infants, a child survives; the difficulty a widowed mother has restraining her eldest son's expenses as he studies in Italy; the challenges faced by a Lutheran pastor negotiating the Church's bitter factionalism; and a Protestant teenager coping in Catholic Louvain.

As Flesh and Spirit follows each family, it masterfully re-creates the social and political world of this dramatic period in German history, aided by superb black-and-white illustrations throughout. Like the work of Simon Schama, Barbara Tuchman, and Natalie Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre), Ozment proves himself "scholarly impeccable yet at the same time perfectly accessible to general readers" (Booklist) in this captivating social history.

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Hardcover
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from Viking Pr (August 1, 1999)
9780670883929 | details & prices | 348 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Studies life in Germany during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Penguin USA (January 1, 2001)
9780140291988 | details & prices | 348 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.00
About: An intriguing study of life in Germany during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe the social and political climate of the period as well as the personal lives of individual citizens and their families.

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