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Death and a Maiden

Death and a Maiden

Myers, William David

Paperback

General LawGerman HistoryTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0875806694
ISBN13: 9780875806693
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Sep 15 2012
Pages: 283
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child, even though the fact of her pregnancy was inconclusive and no infant's body was found to justify the severe measures used against her. The tale spiraled outward to set a defense lawyer and legal theorist against powerful city magistrates and then upward to a legal contest between that city and its overlord, the Duchy of Brunswick, with the city's independence and ancient liberties hanging in the balance. Death and a Maiden tells a fascinating story that begins in the bedchamber of a house in Brunswick and ends at the court of Duke Augustus in the city of Wolfenbettel, with political intrigue along the way. After thousands of pages of testimony and rancorous legal exchange, it is still not clear that any murder happened.

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