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Suicide by proxy in early modern Germanycrime, sin and salvation /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Suicide by proxy in early modern Germanyby Kathy Stuart.
Reminder of title:	crime, sin and salvation /
Author:	Stuart, Kathy.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	xx, 466 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Violent crimesHistory.Germany
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25244-0
ISBN:	9783031252440$q(electronic bk.)

Suicide by proxy in early modern Germanycrime, sin and salvation /
Stuart, Kathy.

Suicide by proxy in early modern Germanycrime, sin and salvation /[electronic resource] :by Kathy Stuart. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xx, 466 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - World histories of crime, culture and violence,2730-9649. - World histories of crime, culture and violence..

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.

"With this excellent study, research on suicide by proxy is taken a step further to constitute a field of research on its own. The cross-confessional approach between Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna, enables the author to show that this largely forgotten historical phenomenon was a fluid and malleable practice adopted by perpetrators according to their local cultural and confessional context." --Jonas Liliequist, Umeå University, Sweden 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.

ISBN: 9783031252440$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-25244-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

958485
Violent crimes
--History.--Germany

LC Class. No.: HV6973

Dewey Class. No.: 364.150943

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