Bartholomew Sastrow, later burgomaster of Stralsund on the Baltic, wrote down his life in old age: the murder of his grandfather, his father’s endless lawsuits, student days at Greifswald, and his travels as a young clerk and agent through Germany and Italy in the years of Luther and the Emperor Charles V. Riots, devils, feuds and imperial politics crowd his pages.
A candid, gossipy sixteenth-century memoir that brings Reformation Germany to life. Download the free EPUB.