Getting married : the courtship of Lucas Friedrich Behaim and Anna Maria Pfinzing -- Birth and early childhood : the three sons of Christoph Scheurl and Katharina Fütterer -- Mothering : Magdalena Römer Behaim and her eldest son Paul -- The private life of a teenager : Sebald Welser's semester in Louvain -- Fathers and sons : the family chronicle of Pastor Lorenz Dürnhofer.