A Lutheran plague murdering to die in the eighteenth century /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
c2012.
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| Series: | Studies in Central European histories ;
v. 55. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Frequency
- The murderers' social situation and mental state
- Religious motives
- The authorities and the murders
- Pietism and the murderers
- Motives
- Boundaries
- Divine demands
- Salvation of the soul
- A Lutheran plague
- The Danish decree of 1767
- Measures taken against the suicide murders in Germany
- The role of suicide murders in the penal reform debates
- From salvation to insanity
- Conclusion
- Appendix : suicide murder cases in Copenhagen, 1697-1789.