Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist
A narrative microhistory of Denmark’s most notorious case of misguided justice: the 1625-26 trial of Søren Jensen Quist, the parson of Vejlby, beheaded for a murder that may not even have happened. Based on extensive and detailed documents from the half-dozen legal procedures occasioned by the false accusation, Days of Wrath — much like Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre – opens a window onto the nature of life in rural Denmark at the height of the kingdom’s power and influence, revealing a complex and often unsettling world.
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