The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town
by Steven Ozment
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Read in July, 2008
An interesting social and legal history, this book tells the story of Anna Buschler and her family's legal struggles in the mid 15th century. Anna lives a rather scandalous life in her mid-twenties, and as a result is disinherited by her father, the Burgermeister (mayor) of Hall. The rest of her life is spent trying to secure the financial support of her family and her inheritance in a prolonged legal struggle against first her father, and then her siblings and the city of Hall itself. Ozment...more
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Read in September, 2007
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Kjell Schroder
I like this book. IT's a really interesting subject told as objectively and dry as possible. I get increasingly annoyed wtih creative nonfiction, which adds psychology and thought to figures we only know through centuries old 1st or 2nd hand accounts. WE dont' know whether someone said something with conviction, or grimaced in thought. This is not creative nonfiction. But the fact that this was just told through legal proceedings, and is still able to make it compelling, show's the quality...more
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Read in April, 2006
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History buffs
The story of an Early Modern European girl who was led astray by local nobility. Interesting to compare modern attitudes with Early Modern society. This is NOT a novel or historical fiction. It is a history book. If you're looking for a light read, it is not for you.
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Read in November, 2007
I was required to read this book for a class. It was okay for an assigned reading, but I would never read it leisurely. It was very dry.
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Read in December, 2007
Ozment does much better with a more focused topic than "A Mighty Fortress."
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