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Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany
Flesh and Spirit Private Life in Early Modern Germany Author:Steven Ozment Steven Ozment, the acclaimed author of The Bürgermeister's Daughter, explores family life in pre-industrial Europe, using private papers and public archives to trace the lives of five German families during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This compelling and eye-opening social history follows the families from courtshi... more »p and marriage to pregnancy, child rearing, and the establishment of a new adult generation. Historian Steven Ozment provides a rounded, insightful portrait of an age and a people. His captivating narrative masterfully re-creates the social and political world of this dramatic period in German and European history.« less