Author: Mulsow, Martin. (ed.).
Title: Kriminelle, Freidenker, Alchemisten. Räume des Untergrunds in der Frühen Neuzeit. Herausgegeben [...] unter Mitarbeit von Michael Multhammer.
Description: Köln, Weimar & Wien, Böhlau Verlag, [2014]. 670 pp. FEw b./w. ills. Orig . hardcover (boards). 8vo. [ISBN: 9783412209223].Includes two contributions in English. The rest of the contributions are in German. - - In the early modern period, there were a large number of different groups who had good reasons to remain unrecognized in their activities or even in their identity. This applies to criminals as well as philosophical freethinkers, spies as well as alchemists and craftsmen working in secret, religious separatists as well as members of secret societies. All of them had to lead a dual social existence, there were grey areas and niches. How did people hide, how did they act? What spatial aspects did this underground have? Were there overlaps or unexpected rapprochements between these very different groups? This volume provides answers to these and other questions.

Keywords: Criminology Esoteric Alchemy Philosophy Criminologie Esoterie Alchemie Filosofie