Januar 2, 2015, 5:58 p.m.,
Strocchia, S. T.,
Allgemein.
This essay examines suicidal behaviors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Catholic convents in light of the new attitudes toward voluntary death emerging across Europe between 1500 and 1700. Focusing on Italy, which housed the greatest number of enclosed religious women on the Continent, the essay probes the causal links between mental anguish, suicide, and forced professions. Despite challenges in quantifying convent suicide cases, it is clear that suicidal behaviors were not uncommon in Italian convents. Much was at stake from both a social and salvific standpoint when a "bride of Christ" killed herself or threatened to do so. Such willful deaths not only contravened basic religious precepts but also reneged on the promise to sacrifice oneself continuously for God, city, and family. Motivations for self-harm ranged from deep despair with convent life to madness and demonic possession, all of which were expressed in similar ways. Nuns also used suicide threats instrumentally to further their claims as spiritual aspirants singled out by the devil. Enlarging the scope of inquiry beyond Protestant Europe, the essay demonstrates the constitutive role Catholic nuns played in constructing new understandings of suicide in the early modern period.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/45/1/53?rss=1
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:58 p.m.,
Schmitz-Esser, R.,
Allgemein.
This essay looks at the practice of burning corpses in the Middle Ages. Much research has concentrated on the later medieval period; however, the punishment of burning and its specific motivations and rationales for crimes such as heresy, witchcraft, and magic go back to much earlier centuries. Scrutinizing sources for the earliest burnings of heretics and witches up to the eleventh century shows that these burnings were mere lynchings and not the outcome of juridical processes administered by secular or clerical authorities. Not until the twelfth century did authorities assent to such punishments and eventually accept burning as a legal form of punishment. Rejecting a purely theological or symbolic view of the dead consigned to the flames as representing the punishments of hell, this article stresses the parallel between the saints and the cursed. If from a medieval standpoint body and soul maintained a bond after death, the relics of heretics must have seemed as frightening as those of the saints seemed blessed. The essay thus stresses the close relationship between saints and heretics through the exceptional characteristics attributed to their bodies.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/45/1/131?rss=1
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:58 p.m.,
Terpstra, N.,
Allgemein.
The theatrical capital punishments of the early modern period blurred distinctions between private and public and between object and subject in their treatment of the prisoner’s body. Where did these rituals originate? Italian confraternities devised distinctive forms of offering spiritual comfort to the condemned through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that mediated new uses of the prisoner’s body in civic religious ritual, in literature, and in the justice system itself over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Almost all changes of the later period were incremental adaptations that deliberately projected a continuity of tradition, with place, space, and ritual carrying critical symbolic resonances. Considering how confraternal comforting rituals employed the prisoner’s body as a sacramental object, as an artistic and literary object, and as a political object can peel back the early modern layering of new religious, cultural, and political meanings in execution rituals. Using the two cities of Florence and Bologna as examples of the process, this essay demonstrates that the layerings did not develop in a clear sequence, but accumulated in a paradoxical interrelation governed by local political conditions.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/45/1/7?rss=1
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:58 p.m.,
Cornett, M.,
Allgemein.
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:16 p.m.,
The University of Chicago Press: The Journal of Modern History,
book review,
Book Reviews.
Review by: Michael Bradshaw
The Journal of Modern History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 983-984, December 2014.
Quelle: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/678760?ai=uz&mi=w0q6y1&af=R
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:16 p.m.,
The University of Chicago Press: The Journal of Modern History,
book review,
Book Reviews.
Review by: Anthony Anemone
The Journal of Modern History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 985-986, December 2014.
Quelle: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/678761?ai=uz&mi=w0q6y1&af=R
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:16 p.m.,
The University of Chicago Press: The Journal of Modern History,
book review,
Book Reviews.
Review by: Randolph Trumbach
The Journal of Modern History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 868-869, December 2014.
Quelle: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/678762?ai=uz&mi=w0q6y1&af=R
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:16 p.m.,
The University of Chicago Press: The Journal of Modern History,
book review,
Book Reviews.
Review by: Udi Greenberg
The Journal of Modern History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 881-882, December 2014.
Quelle: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/678711?ai=uz&mi=w0q6y1&af=R
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:16 p.m.,
The University of Chicago Press: The Journal of Modern History,
book review,
Book Reviews.
Review by: D. L. LeMahieu
The Journal of Modern History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 882-884, December 2014.
Quelle: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/678712?ai=uz&mi=w0q6y1&af=R
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Januar 2, 2015, 5:16 p.m.,
The University of Chicago Press: The Journal of Modern History,
book review,
Book Reviews.
Review by: Elizabeth MacGonagle
The Journal of Modern History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 879-880, December 2014.
Quelle: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/678710?ai=uz&mi=w0q6y1&af=R
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