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This work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled sufferers to seek help in pilgrimage or newly founded hospitals for the helplessly disordered. In the process, the author uses the history of madness as a lens to illuminate the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the history of poverty and social welfare, and the history of princely courts, state building, and the civilizing process. Rather than try to fit historical experience into modern psychiatric categories, this book reconstructs the images and metaphors through which Renaissance Germans themselves understood and experienced mental illness and deviance, ranging from such bizarre conditions as St. Vitus s dance and demonic possession to such medical crises as melancholy and mania. By examining the records of shrines and hospitals, where the mad went for relief, we hear the voices of the mad themselves.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Humanities History Regional & national history

• Celý názov: History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
• Autor: H. C. Erik Midelfort
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 456
• EAN: 9780804741699
• ISBN: 0804741697
• ID: 05140630
• Nakladateľ: Stanford University Press
• Hmotnosť: 730 g
• Rozmery: 235 × 158 × 29 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. August 2000

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