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The Man Who Crucified Himself

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I haven't really expected it from Brill, but here it is, a scholarly book about a case of self-crux.
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The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.
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I'll have a look at it; the cost of the book is predictably Brillian(t), but there are ways 'to pay the iron price', in a manner of speaking.
 
We see him and that is what he wants.
Who wants to commit suicide does this alone, secretly.
But here the exposition is similair to criminals with attacks on public. They want to be shot by police.
 
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