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新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Historian Wins Award for 鈥楽uicide by Proxy鈥 Book Made into Film

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新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Professor of History Kathy Stuart's book exposing women's mental health issues in Early Modern Europe has won a book award. (Gregory Urquiaga/新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis)

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Professor Kathy Stuart, author of Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) has won the 2024 Natalie Zemon Davis Prize in Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

鈥淲hat to do about women (and sometimes, men) who gruesomely murdered children because of their own 鈥榳eariness with life?鈥  This was a dilemma faced by elites in German-speaking lands during the 17th and 18th centuries,鈥 reads the description of Stuart鈥檚 book by award givers.

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of The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society of Early Modern Studies is named for Natalie Zemon Davis, a professor of history at Princeton University who died last year. The book award was announced in early November.

The text of the award to Stuart further said: 鈥淭o elucidate this troubling history, she mines an impressive array of primary sources from archives throughout Germany and Austria, as well as broadsheets and other forms of art." 

鈥&苍产蝉辫; To her sophisticated use of empirical research and interdisciplinary perspectives Stuart adds a sense of compassion, for these desperate women and the parents of the children murdered during this time of religious and social upheaval.鈥

Criteria for the award included: 

  • quality and originality of research   
  • methodological skill and/or innovation   
  • development of fresh and stimulating interpretations or insights   

Stuart鈥檚 book inspired the period film, The Devil鈥檚 Bath, which has won and been nominated for multiple awards. The film will be screened Thursday, Nov. 14, at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Cruess Hall. The filmmakers from Austria will speak at the annual Lunn Lecture that day at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

Read the full story about the book and film. 

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