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Liaisons Dangereuses : Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great by Mary Lindemann (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801883172
ISBN-139780801883170
eBay Product ID (ePID)47030008
Product Key Features
Number of Pages376 Pages
Publication NameLiaisons Dangereuses : Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEurope / Germany, General, Europe / General, Legal History
Publication Year2006
TypeTextbook
AuthorMary Lindemann
Subject AreaLaw, True Crime, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight24.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-018224
Dewey Edition22
Reviews""Microhistory is here at its best when spreading its investigative net to related, yet more remote, thematic layers."", Aside from the scholarly value of the work, readers will derive great pleasure from Lindemann's gifts as a raconteur. She visualizes every moment of her narrative in a way that makes Hamburg as attractive and mysterious a mental destination for us as Venice or Istanbul., A lively and notably readable study that is both a fascinating, if ultimately unsolvable, detective story and multilayered exploration of later eighteenth-century Europe., "Aside from the scholarly value of the work, readers will derive great pleasure from Lindemann's gifts as a raconteur. She visualizes every moment of her narrative in a way that makes Hamburg as attractive and mysterious a mental destination for us as Venice or Istanbul." -- Susan R. Boettcher, Sixteenth Century Journal, "Lindemann has written a rich and rewarding work, one that demonstrates how well she has mastered her craft." -- Mary Lee Townsend, American Historical Review, Lindemann has produced an excellent work, one that scholars can ponder and undergraduates can enjoy., Lindemann has creatively used the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti... to examine 18th-century European life and politics., "Microhistory is here at its best when spreading its investigative net to related, yet more remote, thematic layers." -- Karin Friedrich, German Studies Review, "Lindemann has creatively used the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti... to examine 18th-century European life and politics." -- Library Journal, Lindemann has written a rich and rewarding work, one that demonstrates how well she has mastered her craft., Microhistory is here at its best when spreading its investigative net to related, yet more remote, thematic layers.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal943/.515057
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations A Note on Names Prologue Part I: Events and Entanglements 1. ''Voilà--le spectacle!'' 2. A Most Difficult Case 3. A Very Diplomatic Avair Part II: Dramatis personae Entr'acte 4. A Brave and Upright Cavalier? 5. A Woman of Pleasure 6. A Real Polish Prince, a Fake Italian Count, and an Authentic Spanish Hidalgo Retrospective List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisLiaisons dangereuses examines the local and international repercussions of a notorious episode in eighteenth-century Hamburg. Historian Mary Lindemann recounts the mysterious circumstances surrounding the violent death of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of an erstwhile Prussian lieutenant, the Baron von Kesslitz. Reconstructing the drama from the perspectives of four principal players--the count, the baron, an Italian/French courtesan, Anna Maria Romellini, and Antoine Ventura de Sanpelayo, the Spanish consul in Hamburg--Lindemann explores the historical currents that swept these individuals together and the effects of their encounter on Hamburg's public, its government, and its diplomatic and economic relationships with European courts and states. Lindemann profiles each person involved in the crime, exploring their lives as unique sets of circumstances while analyzing them as eighteenth-century types. What actually took place on that fateful night in October 1775? All Hamburg buzzed with rumors, but it is impossible to determine without doubt the motives of those involved, or even to know what really happened. Nevertheless, the case that developed around the killing of Visconti provides fascinating insights into the diplomatic, cultural, legal, social, and political history of the last third of the eighteenth century., Liaisons dangereuses examines the local and international repercussions of a notorious episode in eighteenth-century Hamburg. Historian Mary Lindemann recounts the mysterious circumstances surrounding the violent death of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of an erstwhile Prussian lieutenant, the Baron von Kesslitz. Reconstructing the drama from the perspectives of four principal players--the count, the baron, an Italian/French courtesan, Anna Maria Romellini, and Antoine Ventura de Sanpelayo, the Spanish consul in Hamburg--Lindemann explores the historical currents that swept these individuals together and the effects of their encounter on Hamburg's public, its government, and its diplomatic and economic relationships with European courts and states. Lindemann profiles each person involved in the crime, exploring their lives as unique sets of circumstances while analyzing them as eighteenth century types.What actually took place on that fateful night in October 1775? All Hamburg buzzed with rumors, but it is impossible to determine without doubt the motives of those involved, or even to know what really happened. Nevertheless, the case that developed around the killing of Visconti provides fascinating insights into the diplomatic, cultural, legal, social, and political history of the last third of the eighteenth century. 3 line drawings, 13 halftones., Liaisons dangereuses examines the local and international repercussions of a notorious episode in eighteenth-century Hamburg. Historian Mary Lindemann recounts the mysterious circumstances surrounding the violent death of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of an erstwhile Prussian lieutenant, the Baron von Kesslitz. ......
LC Classification NumberDD901.H27L56
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