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

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 retrospecti...

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Main Authors: Tine Reeh, Ralf Hemmingsen
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2018-07-01
Series:Sjuttonhundratal
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/1700/article/view/4485