Sonja Deschrijver
Biographic Data
| ID | 8505405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonja Deschrijver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonja |
| FAMILY NAME | Deschrijver |
| SIGNATURE | DESCHRIJVER S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Sin to Insanity? Suicide Trials in the Spanish Netherlands, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
This article focuses on the relationship between suicide as an act inspired by the devil and suicide as an act of insanity in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish Netherlands. It has become widely accepted that from the end of the seventeenth century on suicide became decriminalized, secularized, and medicalized, i.e., the devil disappeared from explanations for suicide and was replaced by madness, and so harsh penalties vanished. This …
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From Sin to Insanity? Suicide Trials in the Spanish Netherlands, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
This article focuses on the relationship between suicide as an act inspired by the devil and suicide as an act of insanity in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish Netherlands. It has become widely accepted that from the end of the seventeenth century on suicide became decriminalized, secularized, and medicalized, i.e., the devil disappeared from explanations for suicide and was replaced by madness, and so harsh penalties vanished. This …
Historical and Scientific Studies (1 work) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Insanity (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (1 work)