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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2011.
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Collection: | Studies in Central European histories ;
v. 55. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |