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The Great Nightmen Conspiracy explores the little-known
magico-religious history of eighteenth-century Denmark. Essential
tasks carried out by the nightmen, such as dealing with carcasses
and assisting with executions, generated contempt from the rest of
society but also led to the nightmen becoming deeply feared because
of the dark and magical forces associated with their occupation.
The discovery of a dead peasant at the edge of the fjord on 4
December 1734 led to the arrest of the nightmen Mikkel and Hans in
the nearby market town of Kalundborg in Zealand. In court, their
interrogation focused not on the suspected murder but on thefts of
livestock, immorality and other provocations committed by these
socially ostracised nightmen. The court case became the largest of
its time, implicating nightmen across half of Zealand and exposing
divisions within society. This book uses a minutely researched set
of incidents centring on the Danish "pariah caste" of nightmen to
bring to light this unknown magico-religious side of Denmark.
Through microhistorical methodology, The Great Nightmen Conspiracy
presents a detailed insight into the lives of the nightmen in
Kalundborg and the society that constructed their alienation. It is
ideal for academics and postgraduate students of microhistory and
urban history.
Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this
volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the
construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal
cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000. Historically,
there have been major changes in the legal definition of those acts
that are legally defined as being criminal offences - and of those
that are not. This volume explores the criteria and perceptions
underlying definitions of crime in a powerful and absolutist
Lutheran state and subsequently in a Denmark characterised by
social welfare and sexual liberation. It places special focus on
moral issues rooted in considerations of religion and sexuality.
The Great Nightmen Conspiracy explores the little-known
magico-religious history of eighteenth-century Denmark. Essential
tasks carried out by the nightmen, such as dealing with carcasses
and assisting with executions, generated contempt from the rest of
society but also led to the nightmen becoming deeply feared because
of the dark and magical forces associated with their occupation.
The discovery of a dead peasant at the edge of the fjord on 4
December 1734 led to the arrest of the nightmen Mikkel and Hans in
the nearby market town of Kalundborg in Zealand. In court, their
interrogation focused not on the suspected murder but on thefts of
livestock, immorality and other provocations committed by these
socially ostracised nightmen. The court case became the largest of
its time, implicating nightmen across half of Zealand and exposing
divisions within society. This book uses a minutely researched set
of incidents centring on the Danish "pariah caste" of nightmen to
bring to light this unknown magico-religious side of Denmark.
Through microhistorical methodology, The Great Nightmen Conspiracy
presents a detailed insight into the lives of the nightmen in
Kalundborg and the society that constructed their alienation. It is
ideal for academics and postgraduate students of microhistory and
urban history.
Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this
volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the
construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal
cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000. Historically,
there have been major changes in the legal definition of those acts
that are legally defined as being criminal offences - and of those
that are not. This volume explores the criteria and perceptions
underlying definitions of crime in a powerful and absolutist
Lutheran state and subsequently in a Denmark characterised by
social welfare and sexual liberation. It places special focus on
moral issues rooted in considerations of religion and sexuality.
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.
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