Death and a maiden : infanticide and the tragical history of Grethe Schmidt / William David Myers.
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DeKalb :
Northern Illinois University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- In Brunswick, near Hannover City
- Anatomy of a crime
- A girl, purportedly a maiden
- Family values
- Common repute, women and neighbors
- Corpus delicti
- Knowledgeable women, the midwive's tale
- Legal maneuvering and the question of torture
- Terror, torture, and Grethe Schmidt
- Case for a defense
- Not even a sow, the case for Grethe
- The thick wilderness of lies
- The way to a confession
- "Even to the devil himself"
- Conclusion: many vigorous enemies.