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From Sin to Insanity : Suicide in Early Modern Europe /

"In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500-1800, eleven authors combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intellectual history to trace important changes in the ways Europeans experienced and understood voluntary death. Well into the seventeenth century, E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Watt, Jeffrey R. (Jeffrey Rodgers), 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Toward a history of suicide in early modern Europe / Jeffrey R. Watt
  • The judicial treatment of suicide in Amsterdam / Machiel Bosman
  • Suicide and the Vicar General in London : a mystery solved? / Paul S. Seaver
  • Controlling the body of the suicide in Saxony / Craig M. Koslofsky
  • The suicidal mind and body : examples from northern Germany / Vera Lind
  • Suicidal murders in Stockholm / Arne Jansson
  • Ambivalence toward suicide in golden age Spain / Elizabeth G. Dickenson and James M. Boyden
  • Honfibú : nationhood, manhood, and the culture of self-sacrifice in Hungary / David Lederer
  • Suicide, gender and religion : the case of Geneva / Jeffrey R. Watt
  • Suicide in Paris, 1775 / Jeffrey Merrick
  • The suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly : apotheosis or outrage? / Donna T. Andrew.