Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age.
Title:
Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age.
Author:
Classen, Albrecht.
ISBN:
9783110361643
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (744 pages)
Series:
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; v.15
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Constructing the Early Irish Cult of Brigit -- A Prince Under the Spell of the Devil? The Outburst of Charles the Fat in 873 C.E. -- The Epic Hagiography as Scriptural Genre and its Pictorial Rendering in the Saint- Savin-sur-Gartempe Crypt Frescos -- Buile Shuibhne: vox insaniae from Medieval Ireland -- At the Crossroads of Religion, Magic, Science and Written Culture -- "But what is to be said of a fool?" Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought and Culture -- Body and Spirit: Martial Practices Among Monastic Orders -- Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages: Affective Piety in the Pricke of Conscience H.M. 128 -- Affectus secundam scientiam: Cognitio experimentalis and Jean Gerson's Psychology of the Whole Person -- A Comparison of the Psychological Insights of Petrarch and Johann Weyer -- Mental Health in Bohemian Medical Writings of the 14th-16th Centuries -- Magic Healing and Embodied Sensory Faculties in Camillo Leonardi's Speculum Lapidum -- The Invisible Diseases of Paracelsus and the Cosmic Reformation -- Paracelsus on Mental Health -- Banishing "Franticks" in a Royal Wedding Celebration: Campion's The Lords'Masque -- Order in Insanity: Eva Margaretha Frölich (d. 1692) and her National Swedish Eschatology -- Melancholy as the Condition of Knowledge in Jakob Böhme's Aurora -- The Inner Cause and the Better Choice: Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Fashioning, and the Attraction of the Labadist Religion -- Melancholy, Madness, and Demonic Possession in the Early Modern West -- A Postmodern Perspective on Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
The aim of this English-language series on medieval studies is to establish a methodical, discerning connection between text analysis and cultural history. The series addresses the fundamental cultural themes of the medieval world from the perspective of literary studies and the humanities. These fundamental themes are the culture-formative conceptualizations, world views, social structures and everyday conditions of medieval life, namely, childhood and old age, sexuality, religion, medicine, rituals, work, poverty and wealth, superstition, earth and cosmos, city and country, war, emotions, communication, travel etc. Fundamentals of Medieval Culture pursues important current discussions in the field and provides a forum for interdisciplinary medieval research. The series is open to anthologies as well as monographs. The aim of the series is to present compendium-like works on the central topics of medieval cultural history that provide a sound overview of a limited subject area from the perspective of various disciplines. On the whole, the series thus presents an encyclopedia of medieval literary and cultural history and its main topics.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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