Suicide, Law, and Community in Early Modern Sweden /

This book explores the judicial treatment of suicides in early modern Sweden, with a focus on the criminal investigation and selective treatment of suicides in the lower courts in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Riikka Miettinen shows that reactions and attitudes towards suicides var...

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Main Author:	Miettinen, Riikka (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence,
Subjects:	Europe-History-1492-. Social history. Civilization-History. Crime-Sociological aspects. History of Early Modern Europe. Social History. Cultural History. Crime and Society. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book