Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 9. Jahrgang Heft 1 / 2019 Sexualität vor Gericht
Deviante geschlechtliche Praktiken und deren Verfolgung vom 14. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 9. Jahrgang Heft 1 / 2019 Sexualität vor Gericht
Deviante geschlechtliche Praktiken und deren Verfolgung vom 14. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
ISSN 2221-8890
Print Edition ISSN 2224-4905 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8409-6 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8588-8 Online Edition
doi:10.1553/BRGOE2019-1
Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 1/2019 2019, 258 Seiten, 29,7x21cm, broschiert € 59,00
Sašo Jerše
S. 150 - 157 doi:10.1553/BRGOE2019-1s150 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften doi:10.1553/BRGOE2019-1s150
Abstract: From the end of May to the beginning of June 1749, a trial took place at the Gutenhaag Provincial Court in Lower Styria, which is to be considered exceptional in many aspects, both at its time and examined from an historical perspective. Exceptional was the charge, exceptional the court trial, exceptional was the verdict, which was written down in both German and Slovenian, becoming thus the first legal document of its kind in the latter language. Two small peasants of advanced age and both drunkards of regional renown were put on trial, accused of sodomy. The trial displayed their completely different attitudes towards the accusation; it displayed furthermore diverse social micro-dynamics that led towards the accusation, independently of the alleged sexual practices of the defendants. And finally it displayed different views of the authorities upon the crime, which according to the ruling law was to be punished with the death sentence: Although the judge sentenced them to banishment from their homeland Styria and to hard labour, Empress Maria Theresia, whose verdict was final, demanded the capital penalty. Her verdict clearly was entirely of a premodern Catholic mode, along which a man is perceived only in terms of his expediency: Man lives not because of him and from himself, but indeed by his Creator only and in the service of the God-given ecclesiastical and political authorities. With their deviant sexual practices, their sodomite crime, the two poor man had gone against their God and their appointed authorities, and therefore had to die. Keywords: Early modern history – legal history – Inner Austria – Styria – sodomy Published Online: 2019/05/22 07:14:30 Document Date: 2019/05/21 13:41:00 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x003aaacb Rights: .
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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
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