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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.

Author Biography:

Kathy Stuart is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, USA.
Release date NZ
July 25th, 2023
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  • Professional & Vocational
Edition
1st ed. 2023
Illustrations
48 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 466 p. 48 illus.
Pages
466
ISBN-13
9783031252433
Product ID
36337686

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