Suicide by Proxy

The Unintended Consequences of Public Executions in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Bibliographic Data

ID9646015
AuthorsKathy Stuart (University of California, Davis, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume41
Issue3
Pages413-445
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCentral European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008938908000575
OpenAlexW2120215280
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited20

On May 24, 1704, at about ten in the morning, Agnes Catherina Schickin, a thirty-year-old serving woman from the town of Schorndorf in Württemberg arrived at the village of Krumhard. After asking for and receiving a glass of milk from a local peasant woman, Agnes was on her way out of the village when she saw four, in her words, “beautiful little boys” playing together by the roadside. She approached the children and asked for directions to Schorndorf. When one of the boys, Hans Michael Furch, the seven-year-old son of the local cowherder, said he knew the way, she offered him a gift and asked him to walk with her. The three other boys wanted to come along, too, but she dissuaded them. Agnes and the seven-year-old walked off into the forest alone

Archaeology · Morning · Peasant · Political science · Proxy (statistics · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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