Title From sin to insanity : suicide in early modern Europe / edited by Jeffrey R. Watt

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : Toward a history of suicide in early modern Europe / Jeffrey R. Watt -- The judicial treatment of suicide in Amsterdam / Machiel Bosman -- Suicide and the Vicar General in London : a mystery solved? / Paul S. Seaver -- Controlling the body of the suicide in Saxony / Craig M. Koslofsky -- The suicidal mind and body : examples from northern Germany / Vera Lind -- Suicidal murders in Stockholm / Arne Jansson -- Ambivalence toward suicide in golden age Spain / Elizabeth G. Dickenson and James M. Boyden -- Honfibú : nationhood, manhood, and the culture of self-sacrifice in Hungary / David Lederer -- Suicide, gender and religion : the case of Geneva / Jeffrey R. Watt -- Suicide in Paris, 1775 / Jeffrey Merrick -- The suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly : apotheosis or outrage? / Donna T. Andrew Summary "In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500-1800, eleven authors combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intellectual history to trace important changes in the ways Europeans experienced and understood voluntary death. Well into the seventeenth century, Europeans viewed suicide as a terrible crime and an unforgivable sin resulting from demonic temptation. By the late eighteenth century, however, suicide was rarely subject to judicial penalties, and society tended to blame self-inflicted death on insanity rather than on the devil." "From Sin to Insanity shows that early modern Europe witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide: increasing in frequency, self-inflicted death became decriminalized, secularized, and medicalized, viewed as a regrettable but not shameful result of reversals in fortune or physical or mental infirmity. The ten chapters focus on suicide cases and attitudes toward self-murder from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries in geographical settings as diverse as Scandinavia and Hungary, France and Germany, England and Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-230) and index Subject Suicide. Suicide -- History Cross-cultural studies. Suicide -- Europe -- History Suicidal behavior -- Europe -- History Social history. Suicide -- history Cross-Cultural Comparison History, Early Modern 1451-1600 History, Modern 1601- Suicide Social Conditions suicides. social history. HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Cross-cultural studies. Social history. Suicidal behavior. Suicide. Selbstmord Zelfmoord. Sociale situatie. Selbstmord -- Europa -- Geschichte -- 1550-1800 -- Aufsatzsammlung. Comportement suicidaire. Suicide. Histoire. Aspect juridique. Aspect social. Självmord -- historia -- Europa -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet -- 1700-talet. SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 Europe https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 Subject Europe. Europa Europa -- Selbstmord -- Geschichte -- 1550-1800 -- Aufsatzsammlung. Europe. Europa. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Watt, Jeffrey R. (Jeffrey Rodgers), 1958- ISBN 9781501732614 1501732617

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