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A Lutheran Plague: Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century

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A Lutheran Plague: Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century - Krogh, Tyge
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Suicide murders - i.e., killings in order to be executed - were alarmingly frequent in eighteenth-century Lutheran Europe. The book traces the murderers motives - an investigation that leads to the Pietist care for death convicts, into central elements of Lutheran soteriology and to the idea of capital punishment as being divinely ordained. At dr???be nogen alene for at blive henrettet!. S???danne mord var alarmerende hyppige i 1700-tallets lutherske Europa. Bogen eftersporer mordernes motiver - en unders???gelse der f?? ...

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A Lutheran Plague: Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century 2011, Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

ISBN-13: 9789004221154

Hardcover