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Title Mental (dis)order in later Medieval Europe / edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Susanna Niiranen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : color illustrations.
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Series Later Medieval Europe, 1872-7875 ; v. 12
Later medieval Europe ; volume 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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
Note Print version record.
Contents 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.
Language English.
Subject 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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Medicine, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst01015277
Mental health services. (OCoLC)fst01016498
Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
Psychiatry. (OCoLC)fst01081152
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
HISTORY / General.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari, editor.
Niiranen, Susanna, editor.
Added Title Mental disorder in later Medieval Europe
Other Form: Print version: Mental (dis)order in later Medieval Europe 9789004264144 (DLC) 2014000256 (OCoLC)868000585
ISBN 9789004269743 (electronic book)
9004269746 (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004269743. doi
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