Conversion and Urbanity in Early Modern Germany (Part 1)

In September 1652, Petrus Overier came to Leipzig. His life had been an itinerant one and he had been to many places in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, as Germany was called at that time. He had been in Limburg, Bamberg, Fulda and many other places. In or around 1652 he ended up in Leipzig. As we know from the work of Alexander Schunka and others, it was very common for people to be "on the move" in this period. But Overier was not one of the many travelers, merchants or diplomat..