A Lutheran plague: murdering to die in the eighteenth century
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 intere...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2012
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| Dans: |
Studies in Central European histories (55)
Année: 2012 |
| Collection/Revue: | Studies in Central European histories
55 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Nordeuropa
/ Meurtre
/ Meurtrier
/ Peine de mort
/ Histoire
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| RelBib Classification: | KDD Église protestante |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Capital Punishment (Europe, Northern)
History 18th century
B Murder (Europe, Northern) B Murderers Religious life (Europe, Northern) B Murderers (Europe, Northern) Psychology B Salvation Lutheran Church B Criminal justice, Administration of (Europe, Northern) History 18th century B Pietism (Europe, Northern) History 18th century |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
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| Description: | Literaturverz. S. [213] - 222 |
| ISBN: | 9004221158 |