Chapter 10. Enlightenment Public as Judge: On the Fragments Controversy between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Melchior Goeze

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. List of Illustrations VIII
4. Preface IX
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I Cities and Landscapes
7. Chapter 1. Was the Early Modern City “a Space”? Refl ections on a Contemporary Trend 13
8. Chapter 2. Capitalism and Public Space in the Netherlands, or Why Th ere Are No Monumental Squares in the Netherlands 23
9. Chapter 3. Visiting the Resort: Gambling, Medicine, Tourism, and the Nineteenth-Century European Casino 36
10. Part II. Science and Medicine
11. Chapter 4. Midwives and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Germany 47
12. Chapter 5. Imagining Peace during the Th irty Years’ War 59
13. Chapter 6. Water’s Dangers: Swimming and Drowning in the Early Modern Era 70
14. Chapter 7. What I Learned from a Self-Confessed Archive Junkie: Searching for Black Germany in Nazi-Era Archives 81
15. Part III. Crime and Authority
16. Chapter 8. Th eatrum Poenarum: Psychological Space and Physical Torment in Early Modern Germany 91
17. Chapter 9. Church Law, Church Discipline, and the Early German Enlightenment 103
18. Chapter 10. Enlightenment Public as Judge: On the Fragments Controversy between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Melchior Goeze 113
19. Chapter 11. Narratives in Competition: Solving the Murder of the Baroness d’Ertrick in Basel, 1707 125
20. Part IV. Diplomacy and Statecraft
21. Chapter 12. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Violence in Diplomacy 137
22. Chapter 13. Diplomacy, Violence, and Early Modern State Formation: Gottorp’s 1635 Embassy to Persia 149
23. Chapter 14. Many Pleasant Tales: Francisci’s Acerra Exoticorum (1672–1674) 158
24. Chapter 15. Th e French Embassies and the French Military Expedition in Siam (Th ailand) in the Age of Louis XIV 169
25. Chapter 16. Violation and Satisfaction: Great Britain-Hanover and Brandenburg-Prussia’s Appeals to an Enlightenment Public in the Diplomatic Crisis of 1729–1730 181
26. Part V. Women, Sexuality, and Gender
27. Chapter 17. Love and Violence in the Italian Renaissance Imagination 193
28. Chapter 18. Making Marriages Mixed: Religious Pluralization, Ritual, and the Formation of Intra-Christian Marriage Barriers in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Germany 204
29. Chapter 19. Burdens of State: Viewing the Dynastic Widow as a Political and Economic Factor 216
30. Chapter 20. Autonomy and Captivity: Th e Case of Maria ter Meetelen in Morocco, 1731–1743 228
31. Chapter 21. Idioms of Distress in East German Petitions for Abortion 238
32. Chapter 22. Women, Witches, and Collective Memory 247
33. Afterword. On Humanism and Irreverence, a Tribute to Mary Lindemann 257
34. Index 263