Pieter C. Spierenburg, Written in blood. Fatal attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam
Twice within a decade, in 1766 and 1775, women were murdered in Amsterdam out of an excessive love. Are these «two cases of lethal passion in the age of Enlightenment,» as Pieter Spierenburg, author of a number of important works on the history of crime and punishment, calls them, worth the intensi...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Twice within a decade, in 1766 and 1775, women were murdered in Amsterdam out of an excessive love. Are these «two cases of lethal passion in the age of Enlightenment,» as Pieter Spierenburg, author of a number of important works on the history of crime and punishment, calls them, worth the intensive scrutiny of the historian? In this book he makes a convincing case that they are.The genre of «microhistory» that has become well-established in recent years has focused predominantly on crimes ... |
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