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Author Pfau, Aleksandra, author.

Title Medieval communities and the mad : narratives of crime and mental illness in late medieval France / Aleksandra Pfau.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (239 pages).
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Series Premodern health, disease, and disability
Premodern health, disease and disability.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In medieval France, the collaboration between local communities and greater authorities grants us unusual insight into the period's concept of madness. The mentally ill posed a unique challenge to the law, and, by examining how subjects and officials worked together to define and contain mad individuals, this book analyses the development of that law and the interaction between local and regional communities. The author argues that this struggle often strengthened communities and proto-national identities.
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Subject Mental illness -- France -- History -- To 1500.
Mentally ill offenders -- France -- History -- To 1500.
Criminal psychology.
Civilization, Medieval.
Other Form: Print version: Pfau, Aleksandra. Medieval communities and the mad. Narratives of crime and mental illness in late medieval France. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2018 9789462983359 (OCoLC)1019660483
ISBN 9789048533329 (electronic book)
9048533325 (electronic book)
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