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008 110923s2012 ne a b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9789004221154 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9004221158 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn754908737
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050 00 $aHV6535.E86$bK76 2012
082 00 $a364.152/309409033$223
100 1 $aKrogh, Tyge,$d1954-
245 12 $aA Lutheran plague :$bmurdering to die in the eighteenth century /$cby Tyge Krogh.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$cc2012.
300 $avi, 226 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in Central European histories,$x1547-1217 ;$vv. 55
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [2136]-222) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Frequency -- The murderers' social situation and mental state -- Religious motives -- The authorities and the murders -- Pietism and the murderers -- Motives -- Boundaries -- Divine demands -- Salvation of the soul -- A Lutheran plague -- The Danish decree of 1767 -- Measures taken against the suicide murders in Germany -- The role of suicide murders in the penal reform debates -- From salvation to insanity -- Conclusion -- Appendix : suicide murder cases in Copenhagen, 1697-1789.
520 $aTo kill someone purely in order to be sentenced to death and then to die at the hands of the executioner! Such murders were alarmingly frequent in eighteenth-century Lutheran Europe. The book traces the complex motives behind these crimes -- an investigation that leads not only to the Pietist interest in saving the souls of those sentenced to death but also into some of the central elements of Lutheran soteriology and the idea of capital punishment as being divinely ordained. The murders prompted special legislation and challenged the religious basis of the death penalty, and the killings and the logic behind them played an important role in debates about capital punishment, following Beccaria. Although much less frequent than in Lutheran Europe, such crimes are still committed elsewhere in eighteenth-century Europe, and even in the present-day US. Thus they seem to go hand in hand with the death penalty, irrespective of time and space.
650 0 $aMurder$zEurope, Northern.
650 0 $aMurderers$zEurope, Northern$xPsychology.
650 0 $aMurderers$xReligious life$zEurope, Northern.
650 0 $aSalvation$xLutheran Church.
650 0 $aPietism$zEurope, Northern$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zEurope, Northern$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$zEurope, Northern$xHistory$y18th century.
830 0 $aStudies in Central European histories ;$vv. 55.