In The Account Books of the Reimarus Family of Hamburg, 1728-1780, Almut Spalding and Paul S. Spalding offer a two-volume critical edition of domestic records that open windows onto early modern Europ
The cover illustration of a Lutheran hymnal of 1736 Wertheim epitomizes how local rulers carried out their rivalries through the printing press: on the pictured town map, the exaggerated size of Luthe