1st Edition
Dealings with God From Blasphemers in Early Modern Zurich to a Cultural History of Religiousness
By Francisca Loetz
Copyright 2009
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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Early modern European society took a serious view of blasphemy, and drew upon a wide range of sanctions - including the death penalty - to punish those who cursed, swore and abused God. Whilst such attitudes may appear draconian today, this study makes clear that in the past, blasphemy was regarded as a very real threat to society. Based on a wealth of primary sources, including court records,... Read more
Part I Religion in Early Modern History: An Approach by way of Blasphemers in ZurichpartII The Offence of Blasphemy in Early Modern ZurichpartIII Blasphemy in Zurich: Historical Change and Confessional ComparisonpartIV Outcomes and Outlook: From the Blasphemers of Zurich to a Cultural History of Religiousness;
Biography
Francisca Loetz is a Professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
'... Dealings with God is a meticulous and comprehensive study about blasphemy and a model of social scientific rigor and methods.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'In all, the book offers a highly insightful discussion of a sociocultural phenomenon that inseparably links religious, administrative, political and social linguistic action. It is precisely this link that historical corpus pragmatists should not lose sight of when trying to make sense of linguistic material that is encoded in statistical data.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics
