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Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 1 - The Violent Against Themselves (Paperback)
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Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 1 - The Violent Against Themselves (Paperback)
Series: Suicide in the Middle Ages
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"Suicide" and "the Middle Ages" sounds like a contradiction. Was
life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to
admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out?
In this first volume of his trilogy, Alexander Murray takes the
methodological question first, as a key to the testing of all other
assumptions. After answering it, he shows that there were indeed
suicides, of types and configurations astonishingly modern, if not
in numbers per capita. "The violent against themselves" included
rich and poor, townsmen and peasants, men and women, married and
unmarried, their motives all too familiar: physical and mental
illness, chronic or sudden poverty, arrest, disgrace, heartbreak in
love, even what modern doctors might call depression. Following the
sources as close to the events as they will lead, the author calls
on these fugitives to give an account of themselves. In doing so,
they also shed new light on features of their world we thought we
all understood.
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