Choosing Death : : Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva / / Jeffrey R. Watt.

In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalt...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 58
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Physical Description:1 online resource (364 p.)
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