Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age / edited by Albrecht Classen. - 1 online resource (vi, 738 pages) : illustrations - Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; volume 15 . - Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 15. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""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 ""

Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at The University of Arizona in May 2013 addressing all these issues from a variety of perspectives, inviting us to consider them especially through a historical lens.


English.

ISBN: 3110361647 9783110361643 9783110361650 3110361655

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110361643 doi

LCCN: 2014018939

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 1101875054 DE-101 1114101117 DE-101

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
To 1500

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Mental illness in literature.
Mental illness--History--To 1500.
Religion in literature.
Visions in literature.
Visions--History--To 1500.
Medicine in literature.
Psychology and religion.
History.
Literature.
Literature, Modern.
Religion.
Humanities.
Mental illness.
Medicine--History.
Medicine in Literature
Religion and Psychology
History
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Psychiatry and Psychology
Literature
Religion
Humanities
Mental Disorders
History of Medicine
Mental Disorders--history
Littérature médiévale--Histoire et critique.
Maladies mentales dans la littérature.
Religion dans la littérature.
Visions dans la littérature.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Psychologie et religion.
Histoire.
Littérature.
Religion.
Sciences humaines.
Maladies mentales.
Médecine--Histoire.
history (discipline)
religion (discipline)
humanities.
mental disorders.
history of medicine.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
Religion
Psychology and religion
Medicine in literature
Medicine
Literature, Modern
Literature
Humanities
History
Literature, Medieval
Mental illness
Mental illness in literature
Religion in literature
Visions
Visions in literature
Literatur
Psychische Störung
Das Religiöse
Vision
Geestelijke gezondheid.
Spiritualiteit.
Religieuze aspecten.
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Germanic Literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

LC Class. No.: PN682.M44 / M46 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93353

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2014 I-323 WM 49