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A Lutheran Plague : Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century.

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 capi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Krogh, Tyge
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; v. 55.
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