Tyge Krogh, A Lutheran Plague. Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century [Studies in Central European Histories 55]. Brill, Leiden/Boston 2012, ix + 226 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-22115-4. €109; US$149.

Watt, Jeffrey R.

doi:10.1163/18712428-13930121

Church History and Religious Culture

2013

DOI: 10.1163/18712428-13930121

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Tyge Krogh, A Lutheran Plague. Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century [Studies in Central European Histories 55]. Brill, Leiden/Boston 2012, ix + 226 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-22115-4. €109; US$149.

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“…Nevertheless, a number of the examples in Krogh's accounts appear to have a spontaneous or revengeful character. 18 This includes the case of Sidzel Chatarina Sivertsdatter, who killed the child of her employers in 1697 after they treated her badly. She then went to the authorities to give herself up and explained that she committed the crime to cause the parents of the child pain, but Krogh states that Sidzel 'started the Copenhagen suicide murder wave.'…”

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Common Sense, No Magic: A Case Study of Female Child Murderers in the Eighteenth Century

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This article presents the results of a psychiatric and church-historical analysis of the substantial court records from 21 cases of female child murderers in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. We investigated, first, the appearance of mental aspects in the cases and if they allowed for a retrospective clinical hypothesis regarding the mental state of the offender. Second, traces of theological or religious elements and third, trends or developments in the cases from 1697–1758 were considered. After an introduction to the legal framework, we present six cases with mental aspects, comprising existential death wish, depression, acute stress disorder, polymorphic psychosis, psychotic state and personality disorder to illustrate findings regarding the murderers’ mental states. Religious elements and developments proved hard to find. The results of the analysis point to social and mental rather than religious causative factors for the murders. To some degree they resemble present-day “suicide by cop” or homicides committed by mentally ill persons. This calls for a modification of the theory of so-called suicide murders and a religious or particularly Lutheran component in this regard. The in-depth analysis indicates that court procedures were perfectly commonsense and included mental aspects but seldom religion – and no magic.

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Tyge Krogh, A Lutheran Plague. Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century [Studies in Central European Histories 55]. Brill, Leiden/Boston 2012, ix + 226 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-22115-4. €109; US$149.

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