Matheus Miller’s Memoir A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century

"In Safley's skilled hands, Matheus's remarkable memoir enlivens our understanding of the experience of the German bourgeoisie..." - Gary K. Waite, Canadian Journal of History

"This well-written book presents an excellent picture of seventeenth-century life and one individual's "bourgeois values."" - History: Review of New Books

"...he shows a sensitive respect for the self-revealing honesty of this remarkable human document." - Sixteenth Century Journal

...[Safley's] intelligent and sensitive rendering of the ambivalences and complexities in his merchant of Augsburg.

-American Historical Review