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

The boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence – form the core of this compilation. For medieval men and women, religious rituals, magic, herbs, dietary requirements as well a...

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Superior document:Later Medieval Europe, Volume 12
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Later medieval Europe ; Volume 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (295 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen
  • Perspectives to Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen
  • How to Get a Melancholy Marquess to Sleep? Melancholy in Scholastic Medicine / Timo Joutsivuo
  • Demons and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Medicine / Catherine Rider
  • Anger as a Spiritual, Social and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Swedish Exempla / Marko Lamberg
  • Signs of Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Visual Evidence / Gerhard Jaritz
  • Demonic Possession as Physical and Mental Disturbance in the Later Medieval Canonization Processes / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
  • “Volebam tamen ut nomen michi esset Dyonisius” – Fra Salimbene, Wine and Well-Being / Jussi Hanska
  • Mental Disorders in Remedy Collections: A Comparison of Occitan and Swedish Material / Susanna Niiranen
  • Wine, Women and Song? Diet and Regimen for Royal Well-Being (King Duarte of Portugal, 1433–1438) / Iona McCleery
  • “This Worlde Is but a Pilgrimage”: Mental Attitudes in/to the Medieval Danse Macabre / Sophie Oosterwijk
  • Disturbances of the Mind and Body: Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland / Kirsi Kanerva
  • Bibliography / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen
  • Index / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen.