Incest In Sweden 1680 1940

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Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940

Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9789198469929
ISBN-13 : 9198469924
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Book Synopsis Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940 by : Bonnie Clementsson

Download or read book Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940 written by Bonnie Clementsson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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.


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