Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany ("The Body, Gender and Culture")

Using a wide range of contemporary sources, Lewis presents a nuanced study into the changing nature of infanticide in Germany over three centuries. Infanticide and abortion were complex crimes with a variety of causes, perpetrators and punishments. These crimes and the reaction to them are placed in the wider context of the of the period.

• | Author: Margaret Brannan Lewis
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 204 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1848935544
• | ISBN-13: 9781848935549