Mental (dis)order in later Medieval Europe / edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Susanna Niiranen.
Material type: TextSeries: Later medieval Europe ; volume 12.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004269743
- 9004269746
- Mental disorder in later Medieval Europe
- Mental illness -- Europe -- History
- Mental health services -- Europe -- History
- Psychiatry -- Europe -- History
- Medicine, Medieval
- Mental illness -- Treatment
- Europe
- Mental Disorders -- history
- History, 15th Century
- History, Medieval
- Mental Disorders -- therapy
- Europe
- Maladies mentales -- Europe -- Histoire
- Services de santé mentale -- Europe -- Histoire
- Médecine médiévale
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 15e siècle
- Maladies mentales -- Traitement
- Europe
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- Medicine, Medieval
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Psychiatry
- Europe
- HISTORY / General
- RC450.A1 M46 2014eb
- WM 11 GA1
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Mental (Dis)order in the Late Middle Ages sketches the boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder -- unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence -- and focuses on the interaction between lay and elite cultures"--Provided by publisher
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Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Perspectives to Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe; How to Get a Melancholy Marquess to Sleep? Melancholy in Scholastic Medicine; Demons and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Medicine; Anger as a Spiritual, Social and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Swedish Exempla; Signs of Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Visual Evidence; Demonic Possession as Physical and Mental Disturbance in the Later Medieval Canonization Processes.
"Volebam tamen ut nomen michi esset Dyonisius" -- Fra Salimbene, Wine and Well-BeingMental Disorders in Remedy Collections: A Comparison of Occitan and Swedish Material; Wine, Women and Song? Diet and Regimen for Royal Well-Being (King Duarte of Portugal, 1433-1438); "This Worlde Is but a Pilgrimage": Mental Attitudes in/to the Medieval Danse Macabre; Disturbances of the Mind and Body: Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland; Bibliography; Index.
English.
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