From Sin to Insanity Suicide in Early Modern Europe [#985847]

Free Download Jeffrey Watt, "From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe"
English | ISBN: 0801442788 | 2004 | 256 pages | PDF | 15 MB
In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500-1800, 11 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, Europeans viewed suicide as a terrible crime and an unforgivable sin resulting from demonic temptation. By the late eighteenth century, however, suicide was rarely subject to judicial penalties, and society tended to blame self-inflicted death on insanity rather than on the devil.