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- 2011039830 abstract "To 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.".
- 2011039830 contributor B12146598.
- 2011039830 created "c2012.".
- 2011039830 date "2012".
- 2011039830 date "c2012.".
- 2011039830 dateCopyrighted "c2012.".
- 2011039830 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [2136]-222) and index.".
- 2011039830 description "Introduction -- 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.".
- 2011039830 description "To 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.".
- 2011039830 extent "vi, 226 p. :".
- 2011039830 identifier "9004221158 (hardback : alk. paper)".
- 2011039830 identifier "9789004221154 (hardback : alk. paper)".
- 2011039830 isPartOf "Studies in Central European histories ; v. 55.".
- 2011039830 isPartOf "Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 55".
- 2011039830 issued "2012".
- 2011039830 issued "c2012.".
- 2011039830 language "eng".
- 2011039830 publisher "Leiden ; Boston : Brill,".
- 2011039830 spatial "Europe, Northern".
- 2011039830 spatial "Europe, Northern.".
- 2011039830 subject "364.152/309409033 23".
- 2011039830 subject "Capital punishment Europe, Northern History 18th century.".
- 2011039830 subject "Criminal justice, Administration of Europe, Northern History 18th century.".
- 2011039830 subject "HV6535.E86 K76 2012".
- 2011039830 subject "Murder Europe, Northern.".
- 2011039830 subject "Murderers Europe, Northern Psychology.".
- 2011039830 subject "Murderers Religious life Europe, Northern.".
- 2011039830 subject "Pietism Europe, Northern History 18th century.".
- 2011039830 subject "Salvation Lutheran Church.".
- 2011039830 tableOfContents "Introduction -- 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.".
- 2011039830 title "A Lutheran plague : murdering to die in the eighteenth century / by Tyge Krogh.".
- 2011039830 type "text".