A Scandal in Königsberg | 26.36 MB
Title: A Scandal in Königsberg
Author: Christopher Clark
Category: History, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
Language: English | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0241767881
Description:
Named a Best Book of the Year by TheTimes (London)
As told by one of our greatest historians, the story of the scandal that took down two Lutheran preachers in the heart of nineteenth-century Prussia-a chamber piece of cultish esotericism, pseudoscience, and political resistance that conjures up Europe at the end of the age of reason and presages our current age of misinformation
In 1835, Johannes Ebel and Georg Heinrich Diestel were tried for having started a cult. Worse: It was a cult that encouraged scandalous sexual behavior in women, including the daughters of prestigious Prussian families-causing the deaths of two young women from sexual exhaustion. The trial would absorb and polarize the city of Königsberg for half a decade and ruin the lives and careers of its defendants, despite their eventual legal exoneration. The historical moment it encapsulates-a Europe reeling from the triumph and horror of a new industrial, imperial era,…
Named a Best Book of the Year by TheTimes (London)
As told by one of our greatest historians, the story of the scandal that took down two Lutheran preachers in the heart of nineteenth-century Prussia-a chamber piece of cultish esotericism, pseudoscience, and political resistance that conjures up Europe at the end of the age of reason and presages our current age of misinformation
In 1835, Johannes Ebel and Georg Heinrich Diestel were tried for having started a cult. Worse: It was a cult that encouraged scandalous sexual behavior in women, including the daughters of prestigious Prussian families-causing the deaths of two young women from sexual exhaustion. The trial would absorb and polarize the city of Königsberg for half a decade and ruin the lives and careers of its defendants, despite their eventual legal exoneration. The historical moment it encapsulates-a Europe reeling from the triumph and horror of a new industrial, imperial era,…
DOWNLOAD:
rapidgator.net/file/d730557818e169898a9e6b4e6313e519/A_Scandal_in_Königsberg.epub
nitroflare.com/view/50F5C6AC3786F16/A_Scandal_in_K%C3%B6nigsberg.epub
