Incest in Sweden, 1680-1940 A history of forbidden relations
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Fr. 53.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
28.07.2020
Verlag
Lund University PressSeitenzahl
348
Maße (L/B/H)
22.2/14.5/2.2 cm
Gewicht
570 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9789198469905
In early modern Sweden, if a man and his deceased wife's sister were found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse they would be sentenced to death by beheading. Today the same relationship is not even illegal. Covering the period 1680-1940, this book analyses both incest crimes and applications for dispensation to marry, revealing the norms underpinning Swedish society's shifting attitudes to incestuous relations and comparing them with developments in other European countries. It demonstrates that, even though the debate on incest has been dominated by religious, moral and - in due course - medical notions, the values that actually determined the outcome of incest cases were frequently of quite a different character. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
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