A Lutheran plague murdering to die in the eighteenth century /
To kill someone purely in order to be sentenced to death and then to die at the hands of the executioner! Such murders were alarmingly frequent in eighteenth-century Lutheran Europe. The book traces the complex motives behind these crimes -- an investigation that leads not only to the Pietist intere...
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2012. |
| Series: | Studies in Central European histories ;
v. 55. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |