Punishing the dead?: suicide, lordship, and community in Britain, 1500 - 1830
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 397 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199586424 019958642X |
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Autor: Houston, Robert Allan
Jahr: 2010
Table of Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xii
A bbreviations x i i i
Introduction 1
The Argument 1
Historiography: English Suicide, French Influences, and the Politics
of Modern Historians 7
Social-Science Approaches to Suicide 13
Investigating Sudden Death in the Past: the Institutional Contrasts
between Scotland and England 16
British History and the Geographical Perspective ot the Study 19
Defining and Describing Self-Murder in the Past 22
PART 1: PUNISHING THE DEAD
Introduction: penalties against suicide in Britain and
on the Continent 27
1. Forfeiture in Scotland 30
1.1 Sources and approaches: forfeiting and granting the suicide s
goods in Scotland 30
1.2 Scots law and suicide: a distinctive path 36
1.3 The Workings of Forfeiture: Who was Forfeited, What was Lost,
and Who Gained? 44
1.4 Donations of Forfeitures: Gifts, Service, and the Value
of Generosity in Social and Political Life 53
1.5 Politics and the Law: the Rise and Fall of Forfeiture,
c.1550-1650 63
1.6 The Political Geography of Suicide: Correcting Lordship
in Town and Country 71
1.7 Informal Remedies and the Interventions of Lords 77
1.8 Denying Suicide: the Responses of Some Survivors 79
1.9 How Violent was Scottish Suicide? Illegitimate Death
and the Legitimacy of Forfeiture 83
1.10 Conclusion: Enforcing Authority in an Age of Political and
Social Change 88
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Forfeiture in England and Wales 95
2.1 Dealing with Suicide: Lords and People 95
2.2 Forfeiture, Law, and Conscience: Lordship and Community
in an Age of Legal Change, c. 15 30 -1700 100
2.3 The Royal Almoner as an Enforcer of Christian Charity 113
2.4 Through a Glass Darkly: the Financial Side of Forfeiture 120
2.5 The Almoner s Accommodations: Arbitration, Mediation,
and Delegation in the Affairs of Suicides 124
2.6 Almoner and People Before the Law: Survivors in the Central
Courts 132
2.7 Concealing and Revealing Suicide: the Strengths and Limitations
of Early Modern Government and Local Community 135
2.8 Competing Lordship: the Rights of Almoners and Other
Franchisees 141
2.9 Competing Franchises: Contesting Lordship 147
2.10 Urban Corporations as Collective Lords 150
2.11 Territorial Lords and the Process of Forfeiture 155
2.1 la Deodands and strict liability: the legal and lordly significance of
forfeiture 155
2.1 lb Lord and tenant: negotiating dominance and
dependence 160
2.11c Good and bad lordship: the limits of lordly lenience 1/1
2.12 Felo de se and Non Compos Mentis Verdicts: a Conundrum
Resolved 175
2.13 Conclusion: Charity, Law, and Lordship in a Changing Society 181
Burial Practices 189
3.1 Introduction: Desecration and Denial in the Burial of Suicides 189
3.2 Comment on the Prevalence of Profane Burial in England from
the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century 190
3.3 Burial and the Law in England: Constraints on Clergy and
People 195
3.4 English Burial Practices: Dealing Selectively with the Dangerous
Dead 199
3.5 The Micro-Politics of English Burial: Negotiating the Treatment
of Murderers of Themselves 204
3.6 The Differences Between Suicide Burials in England and
Scotland 211
Table of Contents ix
3.7 Religious Ritual and Burial: the Simplicity of Scottish Calvinism 212
3.8 Movement and Location: the Mobile Lives of Scottish Corpses 215
3.9 The Politics of Burial: Competing Values in the Treatment
of Scottish Suicides 218
3.10 Conclusion: the Political Lives of Dead Bodies 222
4. Corporal Punishment 226
4.1 The Workings of Justice: Inventiveness in Punishments and
the Creation of Culprits in Early Modern Europe 226
4.2 Official Sanctions Against the Corpses of Suicides: Shaming
the Dead in Scotland, c. 1560-1700 229
4.3 Explaining Official Punishments in Jacobean and Later Scotland 235
4.4 Beyond Courts and Officials: Popular Desecrations of Suicides
Bodies in Scotland, c. 1600 -1820 240
4.5 Avoiding Sanctions: the Suicide of Convicts and New Ideas
of the Body in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 246
4.6 Corporal Punishment in England: the Peculiarities of the North 251
4.7 Conclusion: Legal Change, Law Enforcement, and the
Limitation of Latitude in Punishment 261
5. Conclusion to Part 1 268
5.1 Why punish the dead? 268
5.2 Attempted suicide and the purposes of intervention 271
5.2a It is not even a misdemeanour to attempt suicide in Scotland.
Rehabilitating and protecting the suicidal 271
5.2b Ordering and policing in England: silence in the sources before
the nineteenth century 277
PART 2: UNDERSTANDING THE DEAD
6. The Secularization of Suicide? 285
6.1 Introduction: a French Model, and Attitudes Towards British
Suicide 285
6.2 The Devil, the Law, and Suicide 288
6.2a The place of the Devil in understanding English suicide 288
6.2b Law, super-nature, and the absent Devil in Scotland 292
6.3 The Strategic Value of Suicide as a Political and Religious
Exemplar in Scotland 301
6.4 Suicide, Hope, and Despair: the Spiritual Experience ot Scottish
Calvinists 305
6.5 Suicide and Religion in the Enlightenment 313
6.5a English sermons: medicine and law in the service of religion 313
6.5b Scottish philosophy and religion: the marginality of suicide
in the age of Hume 317
6.6 Conclusion: Hybrid Understandings in a Religions Age 323
7. Newspapers and Public Opinion: Neutralizing Suicide? .325
7.1 Introduction: Newspapers in Northern Britain, c. 700-1830 325
7.2 Reporting Suicide in the English Press: Moral Messages
in the Enlightenment 329
7.2a Trends over time 32y
7.2b Fact and truth in the making of news: the social and spatial
selectivity of reporting 331
7.2c Rhetoric, gender, and the limits of sympathy in the
Enlightenment 341
7.3 Reporting Suicide in the Scottish Press: the English Pattern Writ
Small 348
7.4 Conclusion: Public Opinion and the Boundaries of the Moral
Community 357
Conclusion: National, Regional, and Local Histories 362
Coda: When did Suicide Become Acceptable? 371
Select Bibliography ill
Index 389
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