From sin to insanity : suicide in early modern Europe / edited by Jeffrey R. Watt.
2004
HV6548.E9 F76 2004 (Map It)
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Title
From sin to insanity : suicide in early modern Europe / edited by Jeffrey R. Watt.
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Call Number
HV6548.E9 F76 2004
ISBN
0801442788 (cloth)
Description
vi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)55109022
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-230) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : toward a history of suicide in early modern Europe / Jeffrey R. Watt
1
1
The judicial treatment of suicide in Amsterdam / Machiel Bosman
9
2
Suicide and the vicar general in London : a mystery solved? / Paul S. Seaver
25
3
Controlling the body of the suicide in Saxony / Craig M. Koslofsky
48
4
The suicidal mind and body : examples from Northern Germany / Vera Lind
64
5
Suicidal murders in Stockholm / Arne Jansson
81
6
Ambivalence toward suicide in golden age Spain / Elizabeth G. Dickenson James M. Boyden
100
7
Honfibu : nationhood, manhood, and the culture of self-sacrifice in Hungary / David Lederer
116
8
Suicide, gender, and religion : the case of Geneva / Jeffrey R. Watt
138
9
Suicide in Paris, 1775 / Jeffrey Merrick
158
10
The suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly : apotheosis or outrage? / Donna T. Andrew
175