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Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany

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Springer International Publishingerschienen am24.07.20231st ed. 2023
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.

Kathy Stuart is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.mehr
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KlappentextSuicide 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.

Kathy Stuart is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783031252440
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
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FormatE107
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum24.07.2023
Auflage1st ed. 2023
ReiheWorld Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Seiten466 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXX, 466 p. 48 illus.
Artikel-Nr.10533289
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Genre9200

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction.- 2. Liturgies of Suicide by Proxy.- 3. "Fear God and the Court, while there is still Time." Crime and Zealous Prosecution in Early Modern Hamburg.- 4. "The Unbelievably Frequent Examples of such Murders Committed solely out of Weariness with Life." Hamburg, 1668-1810.- 5. Mary with the Axe. The Cult of the Injured Icon in Baroque Vienna.- 6. The Injured Crucifix: The Emperor's Conscience and Prisoners' Defiance.- 7. Crime and Justice in a Sacred Landscape. Vienna, 1668-1786.- 8. Conclusion: The Decline of Suicide by Proxy and its Historical Effacement.mehr