This groundbreaking book explains the widely accepted practice of feuding amongst noblemen and princes in its social context.

A new and revisionary account of how the nobility grew and developed in late medieval and early modern Germany.

We tend to think of a feud as being a long established state of hostilities, especially between families or clans, which normally manifests itself in revengeful

Attempts to present a coherent account of early modern German history are often hampered by the German equivalent of the Whig theory of history, by which all us

This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners,