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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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What could have been done differently to save Michelle Jackson? And what can save other Michelle Jacksons? The Candle Store is a real-time narrative of the havoc caused by alcohol addiction. It is a window into the chaos caused by one woman's descent into alcoholism. Drinking not only caused Michelle Jackson's life to be ruined (indeed, it ended it), but it also had an enormous impact on her family. Despite frantic efforts to obtain help for her, the story demonstrates how difficult it was to access assistance. At various points, the system failed her. It takes the entire compilation to get a true picture of what a tragedy this was, to cut through the anger and mess to realize how much talen...
Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from those of their contemporaries. Focusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, One Family Under God speaks to historical debates over the meaning of family and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century. Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal a...