The Man Who Crucified Himself : Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe.

Intro -- The Man Who Crucified Himself: Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Man Who Crucified Himself -- 2 The Storia della crocifissione as an Epistemic Genre -- 3 Making the Case Travel: Translation, Media, Reading -- 4 Professional Readings: Religion -- 5 Professional Readings: Madness -- 6 Professional Readings: Suicide -- 7 Popular Readings: Moral Education through Literary Entertainment -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.

The Man Who Crucified Himself is the story of Mattio Lovat's self-crucifixion in Venice in 1805. It shows how the narrative of this sensational medical case was popularised in nineteenth-century Europe and appropriated by readers in debates on madness, suicide and religion.

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