"The Right to Revenge the Offence of God". Changes in the view of "religious crimes" at the turn of the 18th century
2014
Abstract
The chapter is intended to explain the position of "religious crimesů in the enlightened penal codes at the turn of the 18th century. It shall primarily focus on the codes and their drafts prepared in the Hapsbrg Monarchy, including Lombardy and Tuscany.
An interesting example illustrating the above maybe the prosecution of such crimes as blasphemy and sacrilege, which intensely concentrate the idea of relation to the sacred and its protection or, on the contrary, its profanation, and naturally also the enlightened utilitarian, functional view of the sacral, religous objects and also words.