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Death and a Maiden - Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt (Paperback)
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Death and a Maiden - Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt (Paperback)
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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. Myers infuses the story of Grethe's arrest,
torture, trial, and sentence for "suspected infanticide" with a
detailed account of the workings of the criminal system in
continental Europe, including the nature of interrogations, the
process of torture, and the creation of a "criminal" identity over
time. He presents an in-depth examination of a criminal system in
which torture was both legal and an important part of criminal
investigations. This story serves as a captivating slice of
European history as well as a highly informative look at the
condition of poor women and the legal system in mid-seventeeth
century Germany. General readers and scholars alike will be riveted
by Grethe's ordeal.
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