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1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 55 |
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Studies in Central European histories ; v. 55.
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| Contents |
A Lutheran Plague; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART ONE MORPHOLOGY; 2 Frequency; 3 The Murderers' Social Situation and Mental State; 4 Religious Motives; 5 The Authorities and the Murders; 6 Pietism and the Murderers; 7 Motives; 8 Boundaries; PART TWO ORIGINS; 9 Divine Demands; 10 Salvation of the Soul; 11 A Lutheran Plague; PART THREE DEMISE; 12 The Danish Decree of 1767; 13 Measures Taken Against the Suicide Murders in Germany; 14 The Role of Suicide Murders in the Penal Reform Debates; 15 From Salvation to Insanity; 16 Conclusion |
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Appendix: Suicide Murder Cases in Copenhagen, 1697-1789Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Suicide murders - i.e., killings in order to be executed - were alarmingly frequent in eighteenth-century Lutheran Europe. The book traces the murderers motives - an investigation that leads to the Pietist care for death convicts, into central elements of Lutheran soteriology and to the idea of capital punishment as being divinely ordained. - At dræbe nogen alene for at blive henrettet!. Sådanne mord var alarmerende hyppige i 1700-tallets lutherske Europa. Bogen eftersporer mordernes motiver - en undersøgelse der fører til den pietistiske omsorg for dødsdømte, til centrale dele af den luthers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Murder -- Europe, Northern
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Murderers -- Europe, Northern -- Psychology
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Murderers -- Religious life -- Europe, Northern
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Salvation -- Lutheran Church.
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Pietism -- Europe, Northern -- History -- 18th century
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Capital punishment -- Europe, Northern -- History -- 18th century
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe, Northern -- History -- 18th century
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TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
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Salvation -- Lutheran Church
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Capital punishment
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Murder
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Murderers -- Psychology
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Murderers -- Religious life
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Pietism
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Northern Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004221376 |
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9004221379 |
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1283395959 |
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9781283395953 |
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