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Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany - Crime, Sin and Salvation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023) Loot Price: R1,055
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Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany - Crime, Sin and Salvation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Kathy Stuart

Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany - Crime, Sin and Salvation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

Kathy Stuart

Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence

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Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Paradoxically, suicide by proxy exposed the limits of early modern state power, as governments struggled unsuccessfully to suppress the tactic. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality. Most frequently, however, they murdered young children, believing that their innocent victims would also enter paradise. The crime had cross-confessional appeal, as illustrated in case studies of Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Release date: July 2023
First published: 2023
Authors: Kathy Stuart
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 479
Edition: 1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-125243-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
Books > History > European history > General
LSN: 3-03-125243-8
Barcode: 9783031252433

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