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For Europeans, migration was common in the early modern period, as they migrated within the continent and to other parts of the world. They did so for a wide array of reasons, but usually they migrated in order to improve their situation, seeking safety and economic opportunities. However, migration was not always voluntary.
Mar 1, 2021 · They had their own criminal courts, many staffed by incompetent lay judges who were nevertheless empowered to use torture. About half of all the people executed for witchcraft in the early modern period came from Germany. When investigating witchcraft, one needs to differentiate between real and imaginary magic in the early modern period.
May 24, 2018 · Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz, 1997. Collection of seminal conference papers in English and French by eminent historians of Jewish–Christian relations beginning with an examination of the Augustinian doctrine of witness and ending with a consideration of the relationship between Jews and accusations of witchcraft in early modern Germany.
Reviewer: Laura Kounine | November 2015. Joy Wiltenburg opens her book on Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany with a modern case study: a report cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer found that consumption of news reports on television greatly distorted people’s perceptions of crime. While all respondents overestimated the prevalence of ...
v. t. e. The modern era or the modern period, also known as modern history or modern times, is the period of human history that succeeds the post-classical era (also known, particularly with reference to Europe, as the Middle Ages ), which ended around 1500 AD, up to the present. This terminology is a historical periodization that is applied ...
360 p.: ill. ; 30 x 18 cm. Summary: ‘Holz Bau' is a study conducted by a small architectural office in Tokyo on German timber architecture. It began with a hunch, a feeling of disconnection between conventional timber construction and traditional methods when designing timber buildings in Japan. The first part features a reissue of a pre-war ...
Sep 8, 2020 · Between c. 1240 and c. 1660, astrology was a robust part of Europe’s philosophical traditions. Firmly wedded to mathematics and natural philosophy, it was the need to secure astrology’s prognostic capabilities which often drove the emergence of modern approaches to astronomy (Westman 2011 ). Astrology was also adopted by theologians and ...
