Choosing Death
Suicide And Calvinism In Early Modern Geneva
- Editore:
Truman State University Press
- Collana:
- Sixteenth Century Essays & Stu
- EAN:
9780943549873
- ISBN:
0943549876
- Pagine:
- 364
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Choosing Death
Because of Geneva's uniquely rich and well-organised sources, this is the first study to provide reliable evidence on suicide rates for pre-modern Europe. Watt places his findings within a wide range of historical and sociological scholarship, and while suicide was rare through the seventeenth century, he shows that Geneva experienced an explosion in self-inflicted deaths after 1750. Quite simply, modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide both in attitudes towards it -- thorough secularised, medicalised, and stripped of diabolical undertones -- and the frequency of it.
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