Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 1: The Violent Against Themselves (Suicide in the Middle Ages)
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Alexander Murray (Author)
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`Suicide' and `the Middle Ages' sounds like a contradiction. Was life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out?
In this first volume of his trilogy, Alexander Murray takes the methodological question first, as a key to the testing of all other assumptions. After answering it, he shows that there were indeed suicides, of types and configurations astonishingly modern, if not in numbers per capita. 'The violent against themselves' included rich and poor, townsmen and peasants, men and women, married and unmarried, their motives all too familiar: physical and mental illness, chronic or sudden poverty, arrest, disgrace, heartbreak in love, even what modern doctors might call depression. Following the sources as close to the events as they will lead, the author calls on these fugitives to give an account of themselves. In doing so, they also shed new light on features of their world we thought we all understood. 4pp plates, 2 in-text halftones, 38 line figures
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- Contributor: Alexander Murray
- Imprint: Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780199553112
- Number of Pages: 510
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234x29mm
- Packaged Weight: 1
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Release Date: 2008-12-18
- Series: Suicide in the Middle Ages
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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