Volume 1. Hamburg-International Market and Metropolis -- The Reimarus Family of Hamburg and Their Household -- The Account Books Proper -- The Present Edition of the Account Books -- What Insights One Can Gain from the Account Books -- Insights from the Account Books on Material Culture -- Insights from the Account Books on Social Life -- Insights from the Account Books on Intellectual Life -- What the Accounts Do Not Contain -- Charts -- Members of the Reimarus Household -- Family Trees -- Transcription of the Account Books -- Volume I (1728-1749) -- Volume II (1750-1758) -- Volume III (1759-1772) -- Inserts to Volume III -- Volume IV (1773-1780) -- Volume 2. Notes for using the index -- Dates and designations of income vs. expenditures -- Names of persons -- Names of places -- Archaic German terms -- General format and abbreviations used in index entries -- Abbreviations used for references in notes -- Index.
Summary:
"In The Account Books of the Reimarus Family of Hamburg, 1728-1780, Almut Spalding and Paul S. Spalding offer a two-volume critical edition of domestic records that open windows onto early modern Europe and the Enlightenment. They detail economic realities, social circles, cultural and educational pursuits, leisure activities, religious communities, and institutions in the life of a great city and a distinguished family. Volume one consists of the transcription, with an introduction and illustrations. Volume two is an extensive index. Hermann Samuel Reimarus and his daughter Margareta Elisabeth (Elise) Reimarus carefully maintained these records over fifty years. The former was a notable classicist, biblical scholar, animal behaviorist, and freethinker; the latter, leader of a literary salon, educator, translator, and author"--Provided by publisher.
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