A Most Irksome Matter
Richard J. Evans: Murder in 18th-century Hamburg, 6 July 2006
Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great
by Mary Lindemann.
Johns Hopkins, 353 pp., £23.50, May 2006,0 8018 8317 2 Show More
by Mary Lindemann.
Johns Hopkins, 353 pp., £23.50, May 2006,
“... soon began to accumulate; 220 years later, they landed on the desk of an American historian, Mary Lindemann, in the Hamburg state archives. A self-confessed archive junkie, Lindemann has an impressive track record of using little-known and often difficult manuscript sources to reconstruct the everyday life of ... ”