Pieter Spierenburg Written in blood

fatal attraction in enlightenment Amsterdam

Spierenburg narrates two sensational murdercases among intimates in eighteenth-century Amsterdam. The cases both resulted from fatal attration. The eighteenth century witnessed great cultural changes affecting personal relationships. The new ideal of love demanded that couples spended more time together and explore each other's feelings. For maried coules that might be good, for other couples it might be disaster.

Engels | 230 pagina's | Ohio State University Press, Columbus | 2004

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