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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2000. Vol. 2 of 3.
Full Description
A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide - for that is what it is - have earned this unusual treatment?
In The Curse on Self-Murder, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore -and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.
Contents
PRACTICE ; 1. The Body ; 2. The Property ; THEORY: THE WRITTEN INHERITANCE ; 3. Religion ; 4. Philosophy ; 5. Law ; THEORY: THE MEDIEVAL CONTRIBUTION ; 6. Theology: The Age of Reticence ; 7. Theology: Suicide Discovered ; 8. Canonists and Jurists ; 9. Occasional Theology ; 10. Judas ; 11. The Sin of Despair ; THE ROOTS OF TABOO: POLLUTION AND THE COMMUNITY ; 12. Intention without Act ; 13. Act without Intention ; 14. The Community as Judge ; THE ROOTS OF TABOO: THE UNWRITTEN INHERITANCE ; 15. The Curse in Antiquity ; 16. The Curse in Other Cultures
