EMECC » Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre Blog (tag [Suicide]) https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/blog/ The latest from EMECC » Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre Blog (tag [Suicide]) en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:40:16 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss SiteBuilder2, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder Britain Charity Constitutions Early Modern Emotions Free Markets French Revolution Human Rights Humour Religion Self-Harm Social Rights Suicide Taxes Terror Violence Untagged Killing Yourself to Laugh: Joking about Suicide and Self-Harm in Early Modern England https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/blog/killingyourselftolaugh <p>Legally and morally, early modern English society abhorred suicide. Suicide was a crime for which one would be posthumously tried. It was also an act which, for Protestants, consigned an individual to hell forever. Non-fatal self-harm was no less discouraged, as permanent mutilation of oneself went against God. </p> Early Modern Self-Harm Britain Suicide Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:13:00 GMT 8a1785d77d4ccb5f017d5c60f4815d8b