summary 289 Among the general and fundamental results is that the interest during the period of legislation and other actions can be linked to the Enlightenment and to some other developments during that time. The four explanations to the crimes given in earlier and contemporary research are mainly repetitions of Enlightenment ideas. Thus, one can, with some reservations, call this a study of the Enlightenment and of how ideas emanating there were implemented. I discuss some reasons for that these crimes were noticed and in some countries constructed as separate crimes, in eighteenth and early nineteenth century – reasons possible to find both in theology and legal philosophy. Other relevant developments, often parts of the Enlightenment, are also discussed. Interesting is also, even though it will be hard to prove, the tendency that those in reality working with pastoral care, especially of those soon to be executed, had a more hopeful and positive view of the possible salvation of the condemned.
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