Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany

Name: Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany
Brand: Springer, Berlin
SKU: 9783031252433
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Crime, Sin and Salvation

Szerző: Kathy Stuart

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Springer, Berlin

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This book investigates Suicide by Proxy, labelled "indirect suicide" by early modern jurists. Suicid...

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Kathy Stuart

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2023

oldal

488

EAN

9783031252433

Enbook ID

42645035

Kiadó

Springer, Berlin

Súly

768

Méretek

148 x 210

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This book investigates Suicide by Proxy, labelled "indirect suicide" by early modern jurists. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of "earning" their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Paradoxically, suicide by proxy exposed the limits of early modern state power, as governments failed for over two centuries to suppress the tactic. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality. Most frequently, however, they murdered young children, believing that their innocent victims would also enter paradise. The crime had cross-confessional appeal, as illustrated in case studies of Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna.

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