I just noticed that one of Michael Ranft's biographical works has been published in facsimile by a publisher called Elibron: Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des unglücklichen Rußischen Kaysers Peters des Dritten. An extract is available. It's a 363 page reprint of the 1773 Leipzig edition. Ranft wrote several biographies, some of which are listed in Wikipedia's entry on Ranft.On several occasions, particularly on the periphery of the Habsburg Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries, dead people were suspected of being revenants or vampires, and consequently dug up and destroyed. Some contemporary authors named this phenomenon Magia Posthuma. This blog is dedicated to understanding what happened and why.
Sunday, 13 May 2007
Ranft reprint
I just noticed that one of Michael Ranft's biographical works has been published in facsimile by a publisher called Elibron: Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des unglücklichen Rußischen Kaysers Peters des Dritten. An extract is available. It's a 363 page reprint of the 1773 Leipzig edition. Ranft wrote several biographies, some of which are listed in Wikipedia's entry on Ranft.
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