A Lutheran plague : murdering to die in the eighteenth century / / by Tyge Krogh.
To kill someone purely in order to be sentenced to death and then to die at the hands of the executioner! Such murders were alarmingly frequent in eighteenth-century Lutheran Europe. The book traces the complex motives behind these crimes – an investigation that leads not only to the Pietist interes...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Central European histories, v. 55 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Central European histories ;
v. 55. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Frequency
- The murderers' social situation and mental state
- Religious motives
- The authorities and the murders
- Pietism and the murderers
- Motives
- Boundaries
- Divine demands
- Salvation of the soul
- A Lutheran plague
- The Danish decree of 1767
- Measures taken against the suicide murders in Germany
- The role of suicide murders in the penal reform debates
- From salvation to insanity
- Conclusion
- Appendix : suicide murder cases in Copenhagen, 1697-1789.