132 Max Weber Studies© Max Weber Studies 2021. references to The Subjection of Women, published by John Stuart Mill in 1869 and developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor, disconcerting. Höbenreich attributes that to Marianne Weber directing her study towards social and legal aspects rather than philosophical ideas, although these pervade her considerations. Höbenreich concludes by looking to the future and the past. Taking stock of the legal literature on women in ancient Rome, she provides a well-chosen bibliography of methodologically and thematically groundbreaking studies that have been published since the publication of Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwicklung and that rendered interdisciplinary discussions possible. Höbenreich’s substantial work certainly falls into that category, and she makes the potential of research into developments in prehistoric times abundantly clear. In spite of Marianne Weber’s markedly high proportion of references to prehistoric developments, Höbenreich does not paint her as a legal historian. She rather understands Marianne Weber’s achievements as documentation of the dominant (legal) culture of her time. Having expertly embedded Marianne Weber’s Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwicklung in the pan-European context of then and now, Höbenreich’s noteworthy work will certainly influence continuing research regarding the relationship between legal norms and women’s social and economic situation. Katharina Kaesling Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study ‘Law as Culture’ at the University of Bonn Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Edith Hanke, Bürgerwelt und Sinnenwelt. Max Webers München (Munich: Volk Verlag, 2020), 400pp. (pbk). ISBN 978-386222 -342-8. € 25.00. The centenary of Max Weber’s death in 1920 was marked by a large exhibition in Munich. The book under review is the companion volume to that exhibition. Far more than a mere catalogue, it presents a plenitude of material, meticulously documenting not only Weber’s life in Munich after he made it his home in 1919, but also earlier visits to the city—for visits to the opera and concerts, or for lecturing purposes—as well as his ‘afterlife’ (the funeral ceremony and the private and public reactions to his death). The two authors, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf and Edith Hanke are both supremely well qualified for their task. They have applied a clear division of labour: apart from the useful general Introduction, each chapter is thus credited only to one or the other of the two. The result Book Reviews 133© Max Weber Studies 2021. is a well-structured, homogeneous text, with only a couple of minor overlaps. The time during which Munich was Max Weber’s actual home was very short—less than one year: He was appointed ‘professor of social science, economic history and economics’ in April, 1919. But it was only in late September of that year that he and his wife Marianne officially took up residence in Munich. Nine months later, he was dead. If Max Weber chose Munich instead of Bonn (where the terms offered were rather better), it was to be close to his great love, Else Jaffé-Richthofen. Marianne candidly acknowledged this in a letter to Karl Jaspers and his wife. But even so, the temporary abode that the Weber couple were able to find in the Konradstrasse must have tried Marianne’s extraordinary spirit of sacrifice to the limit. The flat was cramped, and belonged to Else, who also managed it. At least, Max could go to his office in the University building; but Marianne had to deal with her extensive correspondence, as President of the Federation of German Women’s Associations, surrounded by the furniture of her husband’s lover. It was a relief, therefore, when the Webers were able, in December 1919, to move into new lodgings in the Seestrasse 3c. The house had an almost romantic air; it was not very far from the University and close to the Englischer Garten. But the arrangements were by no means ideal. The owner of the house, Helene Böhlau, had reserved a room for her own use; there were two student lodgers and an ‘ancient factotum’; and in the room adjacent to Max Weber’s study, separated from it only by a sliding glass door and a cupboard, lived Mrs...