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portada Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation
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Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
466
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21x14.8x2.5 cm
Weight
0.58 kg.
ISBN13
9783031252464
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Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation

Kathy Stuart (Author) · Palgrave MacMillan · Paperback

Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation - Stuart, Kathy

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Synopsis "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation"

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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