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The Great Nightmen Conspiracy

A Tale of the 18th Century’s Dishonourable Underworld

By: Tyge Krogh

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The Great Nightmen Conspiracy

A Tale of the 18th Century’s Dishonourable Underworld

By: Tyge Krogh

The Great Nightmen Conspiracy explores the little-known magico-religious history of eighteenth-century Denmark. Essential tasks carried out by the nightmen, such as dealing with carcasses and assisting with executions, generated contempt from the rest of society but also led to the nightmen becoming deeply feared because of the dark and magical forces associated with their occupation. The discovery of a dead peasant at the edge of the fjord on 4 December 1734 led to the arrest of the nightmen Mikkel and Hans in the nearby market town of Kalundborg in Zealand. In court, their interrogation focused not on the suspected murder but on thefts of livestock, immorality and other provocations committed by these socially ostracised nightmen. The court case became the largest of its time, implicating nightmen across half of Zealand and exposing divisions within society. This book uses a minutely researched set of incidents centring on the Danish "pariah caste" of nightmen to bring to light this unknown magico-religious side of Denmark. Through microhistorical methodology, The Great Nightmen Conspiracy presents a detailed insight into the lives of the nightmen in Kalundborg and the society that constructed their alienation. It is ideal for academics and postgraduate students of microhistory and urban history.

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A Lutheran Plague

Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century

By: Tyge Krogh

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A Lutheran Plague

Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century

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Suicide murders - i.e., killings in order to be executed - were alarmingly frequent in eighteenth-century Lutheran Europe. The book traces the murderers motives – an investigation that leads to the Pietist care for death convicts, into central elements of Lutheran soteriology and to the idea of capital punishment as being divinely ordained. - At dræbe nogen alene for at blive henrettet!. Sådanne mord var alarmerende hyppige i 1700-tallets lutherske Europa. Bogen eftersporer mordernes motiver - en undersøgelse der fører til den pietistiske omsorg for dødsdømte, til centrale dele af den lutherske frelseforståelse og til forestillingen om, at dødsstraffene var direkte beordrede af Gud.

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The Great Nightmen Conspiracy

A Tale of the 18th Century’s Dishonourable Underworld

By: Tyge Krogh

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A Tale of the 18th Century’s Dishonourable Underworld

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9780429835636

A Lutheran Plague

Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century

By: Tyge Krogh

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Murdering to Die in the Eighteenth Century

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