Mary Lindemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 457109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Lindemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindemann |
| SIGNATURE | LINDEMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing German History Biographically
The twelve contributions to this Forum take up the methodological and theoretical question of how to write biographically. The Forum editors have taken care not to define biographic writing too rigorously, instead inviting the contributors—who range from recent graduates to senior scholars, and whose work spans nearly five centuries—to suggest interpretations informed by their writing. Some contributors consider past work or muse on methodologica…
Cold Tyranny and the Demonic North of Early Modern England
Cold Tyranny and the Demonic North of Early Modern England. Anne Cotterill. Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 336 pp. + b/w pls. €141. - Volume 78 Issue 4
The Power of Persuasion
Das Spital in der Frühen Neuzeit
Interpreting Early Modern Europe
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A New Order of Medicine
Reviewed by: A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg by Hannah Murphy Mary Lindemann Hannah Murphy. A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. x + 262 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-8229-4560-4). The Reformation has never been as easy to integrate into the history of medicine as the Renaissance. Fielding Garrison’s venerable classic devotes a…
The Frigid Golden Age
The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720. Dagomar Degroot. Studies in Environment and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxii + 364 pp. 27.95. - Volume 74 Issue 1
Slow History
All historians realize how much COVID-19 has interfered with our scholarship and teaching. Everything has slowed down, from preparing for classes, to doing research, to completing the simplest tasks of everyday life. Yet in the upheaval we are currently experiencing, and as we struggle to remain productive, perhaps we should also seize the opportunity to think more deeply about the "doing" of history and to isolate what really matters in research…
Akteure, Tiere, Dinge
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Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, ed. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 286 pp. $130. - Volume 72 Issue 4
Verbotene Liebe, verborgene Kinder
Reviewed by: Verbotene Liebe, verborgene Kinder: Das Geheime Buch des Gottinger Geburtshospitals, 1794–1857 by Jürgen Schlumbohm Mary Lindemann Jürgen Schlumbohm. Verbotene Liebe, verborgene Kinder: Das Geheime Buch des Gottinger Geburtshospitals, 1794–1857. Historischen Kommission fur Niedersachsen und Bremen, 296. Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018. 192 pp. Ill. €20.00 (978–3–8353–3250–8). No one knows more about the history of the Göttingen Lyi…
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia. Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham, eds. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge, 2017. ix + 220 pp. $149.95. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Karen Hagemann. Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon
Karen Hagemann’s impressive and well-written new book opens with two full-color prints, examples of “patriotic art” from an 1816 exhibition at the Berlin Academy of Arts; they set the stage for what follows. The first is Georg Friedrich Kersting’s rendering of three members of the German volunteer militia (Freikorps) on “outpost duty.” The second, by the same artist, portrays “The Wreath Maker.” Hagemann argues that Kersting’s “diptych . . . repr…
Medical Practice, 1600–1900
Reviewed by: Medical Practice, 1600–1900: Physicians and Their Patients ed. by Martin Dinges et al. Mary Lindemann Martin Dinges, Kay Peter Jankrift, Sabine Schlegelmilch, and Michael Stolberg, eds. Medical Practice, 1600–1900: Physicians and Their Patients. Clio Medica: Studies in the History of Medicine and Health. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016. xii + 359 pp. Ill. $149.00 (978-90-04-30329-4). Although scholars have already done considerable work o…
Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
A Ruler’s Consort in Early Modern Germany
Court studies remains a booming business and nowhere is this more true, it seems, than in the German-speaking lands, blessed—or cursed as the case may be—with numerous large and medium-sized ‘major’ courts and almost innumerable duodecimo ones. Simultaneously, the interest in courts has also fructified, and been fructified by, several studies of princesses, margravines and duchesses that have, to a large extent, significantly shifted our understa…
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
Joy Wiltenburg. Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany. Studies in Early Modern German History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. viii + 268 pp. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8139–3302–3. - Volume 66 Issue 3
Sick in the City
Dirty Politics or "Harmonie"? Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg
This article explores the ambiguities of corruption in the context of two early modern cities: Amsterdam and Hamburg. Both cities were, in the parlance of the time, republics and both were self-governing. In each city, as in early modern polities more generally, corruption was a fraught issue. Indeed, its very meaning defies easy definition. Nineteenth-century perceptions of "corruption" have greatly influenced the ways in which historians have l…
The Discreet Charm of the Diplomatic Archive
This article offers a series of personal reflections on the value of diplomatic sources for researching several types of history, and urges early modernists to consider the many uses to which such documentation can be put. It evaluates the richness of interactions between diplomatic history on the one hand, and social and cultural history on the other, and examines the significant contributions the ‘new diplomatic history’ has made in challenging…
Dynastie und Prestige
Only the Hohenzollerns and the Habsburgs have had a greater impact on German history than the Wettin and Wittelsbach dynasties. The Wettins ruled significant stretches of territory, including parts of today's Saxony, Thuringia and Lusatia, for more than eight centuries, and exerted even greater influence on European history as, for instance, kings of Poland. But, as Anne-Simone Knöfel points out, the history of ‘Saxony’ and the Wettins is not as …
Voluntarism in Social Welfare and Urban Government
This article focuses on the Free Imperial City of Hamburg in the eighteenth century. It analyzes how government structures and social welfare policies coped with a variety of social, economic, and political challenges in these years.The article argues that the traditional values of voluntarism in government were strained by these challenges and had to be rethought and reworked but were never jettisoned until much later, perhaps not until the midd…
The Body Debated
Scholars of medical history have discovered that the notion of “monstrous births” presented challenging legal issues in the early modern world. Were such offspring–often conjoined twins– “monsters” in the civil sense? Were they, for example, able to make a will, inherit, contract, and perform other civil actions? While the question of the “civil rights” of conjoined twins in the early modern period usually remained truly academic (as few such bir…
Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht
Reviewed by: Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht: Körperhistorische Rekonstruktionen von Identitäten und Differenzen Mary Lindemann Frank Stahnisch and Florian Steger , eds. Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht: Körperhistorische Rekonstruktionen von Identitäten und Differenzen. Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin, vol. 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2005. 297 pp. Ill. €49.00 (3-515-8564-5). Histories of the body and histories of sex seem to be eve…
The Black Death 1346–1353
Ole J. Benedictow. The Black Death 1346–1353: The Complete History. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004. xvi + 434 pp. index. illus. tbls. maps. gloss. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-851-15943 -5. - Volume 59 Issue 2
Dirty Politics or "Harmonie"? Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg
This article explores the ambiguities of corruption in the context of two early modern cities: Amsterdam and Hamburg. Both cities were, in the parlance of the time, republics and both were self-governing. In each city, as in early modern polities more generally, corruption was a fraught issue. Indeed, its very meaning defies easy definition. Nineteenth-century perceptions of "corruption" have greatly influenced the ways in which historians have l…
The Discreet Charm of the Diplomatic Archive
This article offers a series of personal reflections on the value of diplomatic sources for researching several types of history, and urges early modernists to consider the many uses to which such documentation can be put. It evaluates the richness of interactions between diplomatic history on the one hand, and social and cultural history on the other, and examines the significant contributions the ‘new diplomatic history’ has made in challenging…
Maternal Politics
This article traces the development of publicly financed maternity care in Hamburg and places that development firmly within the context of urban social structure and social policy. Such maternity care evolved in late seventeenth- century Hamburg as a pragmatic response to an internal problem plaguing several municipal institutions, i.e., how to care for pregnant inmates. Gradually the program expanded to include poor, homeless, or transient wome…
Love for Hire
Love for Hire
Maternal Politics
This article traces the development of publicly financed maternity care in Hamburg and places that development firmly within the context of urban social structure and social policy. Such maternity care evolved in late seventeenth- century Hamburg as a pragmatic response to an internal problem plaguing several municipal institutions, i.e., how to care for pregnant inmates. Gradually the program expanded to include poor, homeless, or transient wome…
Patriots and Paupers
Patriots and Paupers
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Patriotism, Profit, and the Promotion of Science in the German Enlightenment
The Village in Court
Introduction 1. The break-up of the village 2. The peasant as seen by the middle class 3. The literature on rural relations 4. Crime as a medium of historical anthropology 5. Landscape with villages Part I. Peasant Society and the Individual: 1. Fire in the village: i. The arsonist ii. Work iii. The village iv. The families 2. The mad-doctor's gaze: i. From the social symptons to the physical ii. Female arsonists and puberty iii. Catharsis or dis…
"Einem jeden Kranken in einem Hospitale sein eigenes Bett"
Reviewed by: “Einem jeden Kranken in einem Hospitale sein eigenes Bett”: Zur Sozialgeschichte des Allgemeinen Krankenhauses in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert Mary Lindemann Alfons Labisch and Reinhard Spree, eds. “Einem jeden Kranken in einem Hospitale sein eigenes Bett”: Zur Sozialgeschichte des Allgemeinen Krankenhauses in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1996. 470 pp. DM 78.00; öS 569.00; Sw. Fr. 73.00 (paperbound). Wh…
Arzneimittelversorgung im 18. Jahrhundert
How the Idea of Profession Changed the Writing of Medical History (review)
As a rule, historians are not a very introspective bunch when compared to, say, anthropologists. Most are more taken by the writing of history than by writing about how history has been written. Still, introspection is valuable, and we all should perhaps take a harder look now and again at how our craft developed. John C. Burnham does just that in investigating how one notion affected the writing of medical history: the idea of profession. [End P…
Books of the Body
Pious Traders in Medicine
"Pious traders" may seem an oxymoronic expression, but Renate Wilson's study of the pharmaceutical "expedition" of the Francke Foundation rests on just that fusion of religion and commerce in eighteenth-century medicine. She takes what may seem a narrow focus on German Americans and opens it up, outlining the principles of a transatlantic sectarian medicine; sketching out the contours of a "Protestant International" held together over oceanic exp…
Plagues, Poisons and Potions
Geneva, plague and the first conspiracy magistrates and plague, 1542-46 the conspiritors of 1545 the magistrates and plague, 1567-72 the conspiritors of 1571 spreading the phenomenon
Alter und Krankheit in der Fruhen Neuzeit
Reviewed by: Alter und Krankheit in der Frühen Neuzeit: Der ärztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase Mary Lindemann Daniel Schäfer . Alter und Krankheit in der Frühen Neuzeit: Der ärztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase. Kultur der Medizin, no. 10. Frankfurt: Campus, 2004. 436 pp. Ill. €49.90, Sw. Fr. 85.50 (paperbound, 3-593-37462-5). Historians have long been interested in the history of aging. Social historians have documented shifting at…
The Black Death 1346–1353
Ole J. Benedictow. The Black Death 1346–1353: The Complete History. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004. xvi + 434 pp. index. illus. tbls. maps. gloss. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-851-15943 -5. - Volume 59 Issue 2
Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht
Reviewed by: Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht: Körperhistorische Rekonstruktionen von Identitäten und Differenzen Mary Lindemann Frank Stahnisch and Florian Steger , eds. Medizin, Geschichte und Geschlecht: Körperhistorische Rekonstruktionen von Identitäten und Differenzen. Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin, vol. 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2005. 297 pp. Ill. €49.00 (3-515-8564-5). Histories of the body and histories of sex seem to be eve…
The Body Debated
Scholars of medical history have discovered that the notion of “monstrous births” presented challenging legal issues in the early modern world. Were such offspring–often conjoined twins– “monsters” in the civil sense? Were they, for example, able to make a will, inherit, contract, and perform other civil actions? While the question of the “civil rights” of conjoined twins in the early modern period usually remained truly academic (as few such bir…
Dynastie und Prestige
Only the Hohenzollerns and the Habsburgs have had a greater impact on German history than the Wettin and Wittelsbach dynasties. The Wettins ruled significant stretches of territory, including parts of today's Saxony, Thuringia and Lusatia, for more than eight centuries, and exerted even greater influence on European history as, for instance, kings of Poland. But, as Anne-Simone Knöfel points out, the history of ‘Saxony’ and the Wettins is not as …
Voluntarism in Social Welfare and Urban Government
This article focuses on the Free Imperial City of Hamburg in the eighteenth century. It analyzes how government structures and social welfare policies coped with a variety of social, economic, and political challenges in these years.The article argues that the traditional values of voluntarism in government were strained by these challenges and had to be rethought and reworked but were never jettisoned until much later, perhaps not until the midd…
The Discreet Charm of the Diplomatic Archive
This article offers a series of personal reflections on the value of diplomatic sources for researching several types of history, and urges early modernists to consider the many uses to which such documentation can be put. It evaluates the richness of interactions between diplomatic history on the one hand, and social and cultural history on the other, and examines the significant contributions the ‘new diplomatic history’ has made in challenging…
Sick in the City
Dirty Politics or "Harmonie"? Defining Corruption in Early Modern Amsterdam and Hamburg
This article explores the ambiguities of corruption in the context of two early modern cities: Amsterdam and Hamburg. Both cities were, in the parlance of the time, republics and both were self-governing. In each city, as in early modern polities more generally, corruption was a fraught issue. Indeed, its very meaning defies easy definition. Nineteenth-century perceptions of "corruption" have greatly influenced the ways in which historians have l…
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
Joy Wiltenburg. Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany. Studies in Early Modern German History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. viii + 268 pp. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8139–3302–3. - Volume 66 Issue 3
A Ruler’s Consort in Early Modern Germany
Court studies remains a booming business and nowhere is this more true, it seems, than in the German-speaking lands, blessed—or cursed as the case may be—with numerous large and medium-sized ‘major’ courts and almost innumerable duodecimo ones. Simultaneously, the interest in courts has also fructified, and been fructified by, several studies of princesses, margravines and duchesses that have, to a large extent, significantly shifted our understa…
Medical Practice, 1600–1900
Reviewed by: Medical Practice, 1600–1900: Physicians and Their Patients ed. by Martin Dinges et al. Mary Lindemann Martin Dinges, Kay Peter Jankrift, Sabine Schlegelmilch, and Michael Stolberg, eds. Medical Practice, 1600–1900: Physicians and Their Patients. Clio Medica: Studies in the History of Medicine and Health. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016. xii + 359 pp. Ill. $149.00 (978-90-04-30329-4). Although scholars have already done considerable work o…
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