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16 février 2009
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Martin J. Wiener, « Pieter C. Spierenburg, Written in blood. Fatal attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam », Crime, Histoire & Sociétés, ID : 10.4000/chs.399
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Twice within a decade, in 1766 and 1775, women were murdered in Amsterdam out of an excessive love. Are these «two cases of lethal passion in the age of Enlightenment,» as Pieter Spierenburg, author of a number of important works on the history of crime and punishment, calls them, worth the intensive scrutiny of the historian? In this book he makes a convincing case that they are. The genre of «microhistory» that has become well-established in recent years has focused predominantly on crimes ...