Lewis - Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany

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Many people have helped in the creation of this book. I could not have completed this research without the extensive support of many people and institutions.

First of all, I would like to thank Erik Midelfort for all of his guidance and inspiration over the past decade. He believed in my project first, and I hope it does not disappoint.

There are many scholars and friends from across the globe to whom I owe thanks for their advice, input, encouragement, and company: Beth Plummer, Ann Tlusty, Helmut Graser, Mary Lindemann, Tim Fehler, Joel Harrington, Joy Wiltenburg, David Myers, Duane Osheim, Sophie Rosenfeld, Paul Halliday, Laura Stokes, Laura Kounine, Hannah Murphy, Lindsay Starkey, Erin Lambert, Ashley Elrod, Jessica Otis, Kristen Lashua, and the Slawik family.

The University of Virginia, the Doris Quinn Foundation, and the John Anson Kittredge Fund aided in the early stages of research and writing. The support of the Fulbright Commission allowed me to complete my initial research in 2009 and 2010. The Central European History Society generously sponsored later stages of my research in the summer of 2014. The German Historical Institute has been vital to my development as a historian through their graduate student seminars and conferences. I would like to particularly thank the Herzog August Bibliothek for their support and for the scholarly community they host that allowed me to complete the final stages of research and writing in 2014 and 2015.

The staffs of the Stadtarchiv Augsburg, Stadtarchiv Memmingen, Stadtarchiv Ulm, Stadtarchiv Nrdlingen, Staats-und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek were also generous with their collections and guidance.

I want to express deep gratitude for my colleagues at the University of Tennessee Martin, both in the history department and beyond, who have been incredibly welcoming and encouraging in my first years on the job. Additionally, my students at UTM and their enthusiasm for the unusual, the weird, and the early modern have kept me inspired throughout this long process.

I owe a special thanks to Katie and Florian Snow for repeatedly being my home away from home during several research trips to Germany. My family, and especially my parents, are the best an academic, or anyone, could ask for. They have been the ultimate cheerleaders and examples.

Finally, I owe everything to Martin Kane. He has been my primary source of love, sanity, companionship, encouragement, meals, technical support, and proofreading for this entire project and for the past several years. I could not imagine a better partner for lifes adventures. Thank you.

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