Suicide In The Middle Ages Volume 2 The Curse On Self Murder

Author : Alexander Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019820731X
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder written by Alexander Murray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in a three-part series, The Curse of Self-Murder explores the origins of the condemnation of suicide and provides a unique perspective on medieval culture and religion.

Author : Alexander Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191677625
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide in the Middle Ages written by Alexander Murray and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore.

Author : Alexander Murray
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Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide in the Middle Ages written by Alexander Murray and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Murray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613991
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder written by Alexander Murray and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide – for that is what it is– have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, the second volume of his three-part Suicide in the Middle Ages, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore –and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.

Author : Jeffrey Watt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732617
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Sin to Insanity written by Jeffrey Watt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. From Sin to Insanity shows that early modern Europe witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide: increasing in frequency, self-inflicted death became decriminalized, secularized, and medicalized, viewed as a regrettable but not shameful result of reversals in fortune or physical or mental infirmity. The ten chapters focus on suicide cases and attitudes toward self-murder from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries in geographical settings as diverse as Scandinavia and Hungary, France and Germany, England and Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands.

Author : Alexander Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide in the Middle Ages: The violent against themselves written by Alexander Murray and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "Suicide and the Middle Ages" sounds like a contradiction. Was life too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out? In addressing these questions Alexander Murray takes the reader on a remarkable odyssey through medieval law, social life, literature, and religion. He examines a wide range of suicides and explores how the living reacted to them--a topic that will be examined in more detail in Volumes II and III of this masterly trilogy.

Author : Roger Teichmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190887354
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe written by Roger Teichmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important and original philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as being a friend, pupil a student, and the main translator of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She wrote on a wide range of philosophical topics, publishing a handful of books and a large corpus of articles in her lifetime. This collection of twenty-two essays on the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by an international array of experts in the field covers intention, ethical theory, human life, the first person, and Anscombe on other philosophers. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Anscombe's work and in the philosophical problems which she wrote about"--

Author : Derek Beattie
Publisher : Liberties Press
ISBN 13 : 1910742066
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suicide written by Derek Beattie and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is it okay for a person to kill themself? How have ideas about this changed over time, and how do they differ across cultures? How do Ireland's suicide rates, especially among its young men, compare to rates in other countries in Europe and beyond? Are we obsessed today with the idea of suicide? Is it possible to prevent suicide - and, if so, how? Should we try to prevent all suicides, or are there some that we should allow, regulate, even assist? Might some suicides be rational? How are families affected by suicide? What can they do if a family member is suicidal? How can they cope after a suicide? Are doctors able to identify which pregnant women are at high risk of killing themselves? Would allowing these women to have abortions make them less likely to kill themselves? In this wide-ranging review and analysis of historical and scientific research on the topic of suicide, authors Derek Beattie and Dr Patrick Devitt take an unflinching and often chillingly rational look at these questions and many others.

Author : Ciara Breathnach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019263528X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class written by Ciara Breathnach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical frameworks to examine what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives. Coroners' inquests are a combination of eyewitness testimony, expert medico-legal language, detailed minutiae of people, places, and occupational identities pinned to a moment in time. Thus they have a simultaneous capacity to reveal histories from both above and below. Rich in geographical, socio-economic, cultural, class, and medical detail, these records collated in a liminal setting about the hour of death bear incredible witness to what has often been termed 'ordinary lives'. The subjects of Dr Byrne's court were among the poorest in Ireland and, apart from common medical causes problems linked to lower socio-economic groups, this volume covers preventable cases of workplace accidents, neglect, domestic abuse, and homicide.

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836971
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture written by Elina Gertsman and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary approaches to the material culture of the middle ages, from illuminated manuscripts to church architecture.