Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-MurderOUP Oxford, 1998 - 662 pagina's 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 DS for that is what it isDS 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 ofthe condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore DSand, 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 aunique perspective on medieval religion. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
Practice | 10 |
the written inheritance | 86 |
the medieval contribution | 189 |
pollution and the community | 396 |
the unwritten inheritance | 483 |
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Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 2: The Curse on Self-Murder Alexander Murray Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2000 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ancient Aristotle attempted suicide Augustine Augustine's authority Auxerre biblical bishop Braga canon burial buried canon law Cato century chapter Christian Church cide City of God classical clause commentary commit suicide confiscation contemporary context corpse Corpus iuris civilis crime criminal curse custom Dante Dante's dead death despair desperatio Devil distinct divine doctrine Donatist early Ethics Eusebius evidence example Gratian Greek Grisé hadith hanged Herod historian Ibid Inferno Jewish Josephus Judas jurists killed kind late later Latin lawyers Macrobius medieval Middle Ages moral offence Oxford Pachomius pagan Paris penitential philosophical Plato Plotinus practice priests principle punishment question quod quoted reason reference religious respect of suicide ritual Roman law Rome Selbstmord Seneca sibi soul sources Stoic Stoicism story suicide law suicide's body Summa surviving Theodorean theologians theology thirteenth thought tion tradition Tribonian Violent word