Suchergebnisse

The missing peasant -- The nightmen's conspiracy -- Prosecutor Niels Lind -- Dishonour as a profession -- Dishonour and magic -- The case of Morten Tailor -- The nightmen and the Christian community -- The sad tale of Hans Møller -- The Zealand underworld -- A den of thieves : the nightmen's story -- In the dungeon : torture and escape -- The final sentence and its execution -- Niels Lind's last battle with merchant Borthig -- What later befell the nightman family.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Morphology Frequency -- The Murderers' Social Situation and Mental State -- Religious Motives -- The Authorities and the Murders -- Pietism and the Murderers -- Motives -- Boundaries -- Origins Divine Demands -- Salvation of the Soul -- A Lutheran Plague -- Demise The Danish Decree of 1767 -- Measures Taken Against the Suicide Murders in Germany -- The Role of Suicide Murders in the Penal Reform Debates -- From Salvation to Insanity -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Suicide Murder Cases in Copenhagen, 1697–1789 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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 capital punishment as being divinely ordained. - At dræbe nogen alene for at blive henrettet!. Sådanne mord var alarmerende hyppige i 1700-tallets lutherske Europa. Bogen eftersporer mordernes motiver - en undersøgelse der fører til den pietistiske omsorg for dødsdømte, til centrale dele af den luthers.

"Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000. Historically, there have been major changes in the legal definition of those acts that are legally defined as being criminal offences - and of those that are not. This volume explores the criteria and perceptions underlying definitions of crime in a powerful and absolutist Lutheran state and subsequently in a Denmark characterised by social welfare and sexual liberation. It places special focus on moral issues rooted in considerations of religion and sexuality."--