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

by Kathy Stuart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031252462
• ISBN13: 9783031252464
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"