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Title Madness in medieval law and custom / edited by Wendy J. Turner
Published Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
Series Later medieval Europe, 1872-7875 ; v. 6
Later medieval Europe ; v. 6. 1872-7875
Contents Town and country : a comparison of the treatment of the mentally disabled in late medieval English common law and chartered boroughs / Wendy J. Turner -- Insanity, exculpation, and disempowerment in Byzantine law / Margaret Trenchard-Smith -- The mysterious case of the 'mad' rector of Bletchingdon : the treatment of mentally ill clergy in late thirteenth-century England / James R. King -- Silent testimony : emotional displays and lapses in memory as indicators of mental instability in medieval English investigations / Wendy J. Turner -- Crimes of passion : emotion and madness in French remission letters / Aleksandra Pfau -- Royal madness and the law : the role of anger in representations of royal authority in eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman texts / Kate McGrath -- The King's stupor : dealing with royal paralysis in late medieval England / Cory James Rushton -- A cure for the King means health for the country : the mental and physical health of Henry VI / Wendy J. Turner
Summary This essay collection examines aspects of mental impairment from a variety of angles to unearth medieval perspectives on mental affliction. This volume on madness in the Middle Ages elucidates how medieval society conceptualized mental afflictions, especially in law and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Psychiatry -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Mental illness -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Insanity (Law) -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Medicine, Medieval -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Medicine, Medieval.
Politics, Practical.
Mental Disorders -- history
Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence
Forensic Psychiatry -- history
History, Medieval
Politics
politics.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
Politics, Practical
Insanity (Law)
Medicine, Medieval
Mental illness
Psychiatry
SUBJECT England
France
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Turner, Wendy J. (Wendy Jo), 1961-
ISBN 9789004187443
9004187448