Margery

Name: Margery
Rating: 2.5 (5 reviews)

by Georg Ebers

First published 1887

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Presented as the reminiscences of Margery Schopper, born in Nuremberg in 1404, the novel follows a merchant family through love, marriage, travel, feud and the obligations of kinship. Margery’s first-person voice gives the story the texture of a household chronicle while carrying her far beyond the domestic sphere.

The wider world of the early fifteenth-century Holy Roman Empire repeatedly enters her life through trade, diplomacy and princely politics. Emperor Sigismund and the aftermath of the Council of Constance help anchor a narrative that moves between Nuremberg’s civic elite and the larger networks connecting German cities to courts and international commerce.