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001472001 1001_ $$aStuart, Kathy,$$eauthor.
001472001 24510 $$aSuicide by proxy in early modern Germany :$$bcrime, sin and salvation /$$cKathy Stuart.
001472001 264_1 $$aCham :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c[2023]
001472001 264_4 $$c©2023
001472001 300__ $$a1 online resource (xx, 466 pages) :$$billustrations.
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001472001 4901_ $$aWorld histories of crime, culture and violence
001472001 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001472001 5050_ $$aIntro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Liturgies of Suicide by Proxy -- The Art of Child Sacrifice -- Catholics and Protestants -- A Crime of Women -- Rationality, Instrumentality, Ritual, and Sacrifice -- Chapter 3: "Fear God and the Court, while there is still Time." Crime and Zealous Prosecution in Early Modern Hamburg -- The City -- Crime and Punishment in Hamburg -- A New Rationale for Murder: Precursors -- Invoking Divine Intervention: The "Ordeal of the Bier" and the "Justice of the Street"
001472001 5058_ $$aConclusion: The Stage Is Set -- Chapter 4: "The Unbelievably Frequent Examples of such Murders Committed solely out of Weariness with Life." Hamburg, 1668-1810 -- Direct Suicide: Ongoing Desecrations and an Emerging Insanity Defense in Select Cases -- Case Numbers Rise -- The House of Correction -- The Spinnhouse -- 1697: Female Inmates Form a Murder Plot -- 1698-1699: Child Murders in Prison and in the Streets -- The Early Eighteenth Century -- Legislation Fails to Stop the Killings -- 1737: Direct Suicide-Official Mercy vs. Popular Taboo -- 1740: Senators' Discomfort with a Traditional Ritual
001472001 5058_ $$a1750-1784: Child Murders Continue, Despite Official Leniency Toward Direct Suicide -- 1784: Desacralization and Deritualization -- Late Cases: Child Murder as a Suicidal Reflex -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Mary with the Axe: The Cult of the Injured Icon in Baroque Vienna -- Pietas Austriaca -- Vulnerable and Potentially Miraculous -- Eucharistic Devotions in Popular Practice -- Host Desecration in History and Memory: The Usual Suspects -- Chapter 6: The Injured Crucifix: The Emperor's Conscience and Prisoners' Defiance -- Governmental Responses
001472001 5058_ $$aA Theological-Judicial Loophole Allows a Change in Government Tactics -- Nicolaus Stark (c. 1729-1757) -- An Ongoing Problem? -- Gender and Age of Suicidal Blasphemers -- History and Memory -- Chapter 7: Crime and Justice in a Sacred Landscape: Vienna, 1668-1786 -- Early Cases -- Susanna Weiglhofferin (c. 1679-1704): Murder as Pilgrimage? -- The Government Responds, and Fails to End the Killings -- Unmoored, Dispossessed, Out for Revenge: Women Vagrants as Serial Killers? -- Execution Rates and Gender -- Sharing in a Blessed Death: Leveraging Salvation on the Ravenstone
001472001 5058_ $$a"How to Comfort Poor Sinners, who will be executed for their Misdeeds, and dispose them well for Death." -- From Mount Calvary to Poor-Sinners' Graveyard -- An Ideological Imperative: Eliciting the Poor Sinner's Compliance -- The Demise of Old-Regime Criminal Justice -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Decline of Suicide by Proxy and its Historical Effacement -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Archiv der Marktgemeinde Perchtoldsdorf (AMP) -- Bayerisches Staatsarchiv Nürnberg (StAN) -- Diözesanarchiv Wien (DAW) -- Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallersteinisches Archiv (FÖWAH)
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001472001 520__ $$a"With this excellent study, research on suicide by proxy is taken a step further to constitute a field of research on its own. The cross-confessional approach between Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna, enables the author to show that this largely forgotten historical phenomenon was a fluid and malleable practice adopted by perpetrators according to their local cultural and confessional context." --Jonas Liliequist, Ume University, Sweden Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of earning their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted government, perpetrators hoped to escape eternal damnation that befell direct suicides. Kathy Stuart shows how this crime emerged as an unintended consequence of aggressive social disciplining campaigns by confessional states. Paradoxically, suicide by proxy exposed the limits of early modern state power, as governments struggled unsuccessfully to suppress the tactic. Some perpetrators committed arson or blasphemy, or confessed to long-past crimes, usually infanticide, or bestiality. Most frequently, however, they murdered young children, believing that their innocent victims would also enter paradise. The crime had cross-confessional appeal, as illustrated in case studies of Lutheran Hamburg and Catholic Vienna. Kathy Stuart is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.
001472001 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 1, 2023).
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001472001 650_0 $$aSuicide$$xPsychological aspects.
001472001 650_0 $$aSalvation after death.
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