Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

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Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 15 | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.

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Albrecht Classen, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

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"Dies ist ein eindrucksvoller [...] Band. [...] Modernen Lesern führen die handwerklich soliden und vom Herausgeber akkurat redigierten Beiträge eindrucksvoll vor Augen, dass der mittelalterliche Mensch noch viel stärker im Bewusstsein einer fundamentalen Verschränkung von Leib und Seele, Mikro- und Makroskosmos, Erde und Himmel lebte."
Heiko Hartmann in: Mediaevistik 29 (2016), 320-322

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Introduction Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Constructing the Early Irish Cult of Brigit Maedhbh M. Nic Dhonnchadha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
A Prince Under the Spell of the Devil? The Outburst of Charles the Fat in 873 C.E. Xenia Sosnowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
The Epic Hagiography as Scriptural Genre and its Pictorial Rendering in the Saint- Savin-sur-Gartempe Crypt Frescos Rosemarie Danziger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	206
Buile Shuibhne: vox insaniae from Medieval Ireland Feargal Ó Béarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	242
At the Crossroads of Religion, Magic, Science and Written Culture Susanna Niiranen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	290
“But what is to be said of a fool?” Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought and Culture Eliza Buhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	314
Body and Spirit: Martial Practices Among Monastic Orders Lia B. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	344
Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages: Affective Piety in the Pricke of Conscience H.M. 128 Jean E. Jost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
Affectus secundam scientiam: Cognitio experimentalis and Jean Gerson’s Psychology of the Whole Person Scott L. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	406
A Comparison of the Psychological Insights of Petrarch and Johann Weyer Thomas G. Benedek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	424
Mental Health in Bohemian Medical Writings of the 14th−16th Centuries David Tomíček Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	464
Magic Healing and Embodied Sensory Faculties in Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum Liliana Leopardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	480
The Invisible Diseases of Paracelsus and the Cosmic Reformation Andrew Weeks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	507
Paracelsus on Mental Health Thomas Willard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	524
Banishing “Franticks” in a Royal Wedding Celebration: Campion’s The Lords’Masque Marilyn Sandidge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	557
Order in Insanity: Eva Margaretha Frölich (d. 1692) and her National Swedish Eschatology Bo Andersson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	579
Melancholy as the Condition of Knowledge in Jakob Böhme’s Aurora Florian Westhagen and Tünde Beatrix Karnitscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	593
The Inner Cause and the Better Choice: Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Fashioning, and the Attraction of the Labadist Religion Martha Moffitt Peacock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	607
Melancholy, Madness, and Demonic Possession in the Early Modern West Allison P. Coudert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	647
A Postmodern Perspective on Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion Hester E. Oberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	690
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	712
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	715
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	725

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eBook published on:

July 28, 2014

eBook ISBN:

9783110361643

Hardcover published on:

June 16, 2014

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9783110360875

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Front matter:

6

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738

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27

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110361643

eBook ISBN: 9783110361643

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Keywords for this book

Mental health; madness; spirituality

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Cultural historians; Literary historians; Historians of medicine, religion and art; Psychologists

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Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

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