A Poisoned Chalice /

A Poisoned Chalice / / Jeffrey Freedman.

A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. The story is riveting and mysterious, full of bizarre twists and colorful characters--an anti-clerical gravedigger, a hard-drinking drifter, a defrocked...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Freedman, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2002
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 17 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Murder in the Cathedral
  • CHAPTER TWO. Proof and Persuasion
  • CHAPTER THREE. "Not Wirz, Not the Gravedigger"
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Enlightenment in German-Speaking Europe
  • CHAPTER FIVE. "And God Fell Silent": The Enlightenment on Trial (I)
  • CHAPTER SIX. Radical Evil: The Enlightenment on Trial (II)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Sword of Justice
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Search for Truth
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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