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Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2 - The Curse on Self-Murder (Paperback)
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Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2 - The Curse on Self-Murder (Paperback)
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A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then
they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house,
pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be
dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of
a suicide - for that is what it is - have earned this unusual
treatment?
In The Curse on Self-Murder, Alexander Murray explores the origin
of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the
most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and
folklore -and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch
when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to
live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a
unique perspective on medieval religion.
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