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Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation

Name: Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation
Brand: Palgrave MacMillan
SKU: 9783031252464
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Contributors:

Kathy Stuart

Publisher:

Palgrave MacMillan

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Europe, Criminology

Edition Description:

2023 Edition

Series:

World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence

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Release Date:

2024-02-02

ISBN 13:

9783031252464

Weight:

1.27 lbs

Size:

8.27 x 5.83 x 0.98 inches

Pages:

466

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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.

About the Author
Kathy Stuart is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation

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