In the historical accounts, which often read like a novel, of The Burgermeister's Daughter, Steven Ozment reveals to us the trials and tribulations of the Buschler family, and most specifically the hardships that fell upon the youngest daughter of the family, Anna. The Burgermeister's Daughter tells an intricate story, as well as revealing to the reader the world that a woman in the 16th century must live in. One key theme in The Burgermeister's Daughter is the treatment of women, and the role of social status in the pre-modern age. While in the prior decades women's rights seemed to be getting better, in the 16th century, a lot of those rights had been stripped away. The sheer hypocrisy of the people in this German society at the time was astounding, and the double standards by which men and women lived were difficult to even fathom as a modern...