A Lutheran Plague - Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)

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 interest in saving the souls of those sentenced to death but also into some of the central elements of Lutheran soteriology and the idea of capital punishment as being divinely ordained. The murders prompted special legislation and challenged the religious basis of the death penalty, and the killings and the logic behind them played an important role in debates about capital punishment, following Beccaria. Although much less frequent than in Lutheran Europe, such crimes are still committed elsewhere in eighteenth-century Europe, and even in the present-day US. Thus they seem to go hand in hand with the death penalty, irrespective of time and space. At dr be nogen alene for at blive d dsd mt og henrettet af b delen . S danne mord var alarmerende hyppige i 1700-tallets lutherske Europa. Bogen eftersporer de komplekse motiver bag disse forbrydelser - en unders gelse der f rer ikke bare til det pietistiske engagement i at frelse de d dsd mtes sj le, men ogs til centrale dele af den lutherske frelseforst else og til forestillingen om, at d dsstraffene var direkte beordrede af Gud. Bogen har selvmordsmordene i K benhavn og den danske stats bek mpelse af selvmordsmordene som udgangspunkt, men indeholder ogs et europ isk udblik. Mordene f rte til s rlig lovgivning og udforderde de religi st motiverede d dsstraffe. Her blev Danmark foregangsland, da man i 1767 helt ekstraordin rt afskaffede d dsstraffen for disse mord. Om end meget sj ldnere end i det lutherske Europa ses selvmordsmord ogs i det vrige Europa i 1700-tallet s vel som i vore dages USA. De synes s ledes at ledsage d dsstraffen overalt, hvor den er i brug.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Studies in Central European Histories, 55
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	2012
Authors:	Tyge Krogh
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	226
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-22115-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Euthanasia Books > History > European history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
LSN:	90-04-22115-8
Barcode:	9789004221154

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