From Sin to Insanity : : Suicide in Early Modern Europe /

From Sin to Insanity : : Suicide in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Jeffrey Watt.

In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500–1800, 11 authors combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intellectual history to trace important changes in the ways Europeans experienced and understood voluntary death. Well into the seventeenth century, Europeans v...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Andrew, Donna T.,
Bosman, Machiel,
Boyden, James M.,
Dickenson, Elizabeth G.,
Jansson, Arne,
Koslofsky, Craig M.,
Lederer, David,
Lind, Vera,
Merrick, Jeffrey,
Seaver, Paul S.,
Watt, Jeffrey R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Watt, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 tables, 14 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List Of Illustrations
  • List Of Tables
  • Introduction:Toward A History Of Suicide In Early Modern Europe
  • 1. The Judicial Treatment of Suicide in Amsterdam
  • 2. Suicide and the Vicar General in London:A Mystery Solved?
  • 3. Controlling the Body of the Suicide in Saxony
  • 4. The Suicidal Mind and Body: Examples from Northern Germany
  • 5. Suicidal Murders in Stockholm
  • 6. Ambivalence toward Suicide in Golden Age Spain
  • 7. Honfibú: Nationhood, Manhood, and the Culture of Self-Sacrifice in Hungary
  • 8. Suicide, Gender, and Religion:The Case of Geneva
  • 9. Suicide in Paris, 1775
  • 10. The Suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly:Apotheosis or Outrage?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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