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Virginia DeMarce

Author of 1634: The Bavarian Crisis

24+ Works 1,386 Members 25 Reviews

About the Author

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Works by Virginia DeMarce

1634: The Bavarian Crisis (2007) — Author — 482 copies
1635: The Dreeson Incident (2008) — Author — 351 copies
Grantville Gazette III (12-in-1) (2007) — Contributor — 290 copies
1635: The Tangled Web (2009) 213 copies
Ring of Fire Book (2020) 5 copies
The Unexpected Sales Reps (2022) 3 copies
1634 : 1 copy

Associated Works

Ring of Fire I (2004) — Contributor — 686 copies
1634: The Ram Rebellion (2006) — Contributor — 624 copies
Grantville Gazette I (2004) — Contributor, some editions — 517 copies
Ring of Fire II (2008) — Contributor, some editions — 301 copies
Grantville Gazette IV (2008) — Contributor, some editions — 192 copies
Grantville Gazette V (2009) — Contributor, some editions — 154 copies
Ring of Fire III (2011) — Contributor — 135 copies
Grantville Gazette VI (2012) — Contributor, some editions — 107 copies
Ring of Fire IV (2016) — Contributor, some editions — 77 copies
Grantville Gazette VIII (2018) — Contributor, some editions — 47 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
DeMarce, Virginia
Legal name
DeMarce, Virginia Easley
Birthdate
1940-11-28
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
Arlington, Virginia, USA
Education
Stanford University (PhD|early modern European history|1967)
Occupations
historian
science fiction writer
Organizations
National Genealogical Society
Northwest Missouri State University
George Mason University
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers
U.S. Office of Federal Acknowledgment
Short biography
Virginia DeMarce, after jobs as peculiar as counting raisins for the Calif. Dept. of Agriculture, received her Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Stanford University..  She has served as president of the National Genealogical Society.   She taught at Northwest Missouri State University and at George Mason University.   She has three grown children and five grandchildren, and lives in Arlington, VA, with her husband.  [adapted from 1635: the Dreeson Incident (2008)]

Members

Reviews

The world created by the 1632 book keeps expanding in time and space. With the ambition this project has I think it was inevitable, but maybe it also becomes less entertaining.

A firm interest in European history is a good base though nobody will be prepared for everything in this universe.

This book is a lot about the collision of catholicism and protestantism, illustrated by the conflicts surrounding Bavaria, though happening all the way between Amsterdam and Vienna, with a sprinkle of Basel.

It's interesting but the time line moves very slowly.
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bratell | 8 other reviews | Dec 25, 2020 |
Complex enough to cause one to take notes. Recognition of the plague as a solvable, though very difficult, problem sustains the plot throughout this sojourn among the complexities of life fraught with class, caste and wealth differences that are very substantial. Lots of interesting characters dealing with the clash of up and down time societies. The reader will feel the need to keep identifying who is who by referring to the given lists or ignore them completely as I did assuming that I would read this book again.… (more)
 
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jamespurcell | Dec 4, 2020 |
To paraphrase Salieri in Amadeus, too many names, Virginia. Sorting the sects from the religions was difficult enough to make the book rather ponderous. But matching the names with their various apostasies, variations on a theme as well as who was related to whom was over the top. Localization should be used as a spice; by the pinch rather than by the shovelful. Interesting characters, some of which we lose later and enough of a storyline for a novella rather than a book
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jamespurcell | 6 other reviews | May 23, 2015 |
Your review Interesting take on the social and political mores of the time. Sometimes a tedious slog but worth it. Names keep popping up that are not in the genealogy charts or the appendix. Some very interesting characters introduced that hopefully will be in future works. Wiping out the anti's, Semitics and witches, was clearly a simpler task in those days.
 
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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