Pieter Spierenburg narrates two sensational murder cases among intimates in eighteenth-century Amsterdam.
The cases recounted here both resulted from fatal attraction.
They represented the darker side of the eighteenth-century revolution in love.
This period witnessed great cultural changes affecting personal relationships and emotions.
The new ideal of love demanded that couples spend much of their time together and explore each other's feelings.
But this new ideal was meant.
Ohio State University Press Written in blood: fatal attraction in enlightenment amsterdam, paperback/pieter spierenburg
