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H. C. Erik Midelfort
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments vii
- Contents xi
- Tables and Maps xii
- Illustrations xiv
- Abbreviations xv
- Introduction 1
- CHAPTER ONE Historical Problems: Sin, St. Vitus, and the Devil 25
- CHAPTER TWO Two Reformers and a World Gone Mad: Luther and Paracelsus 80
- CHAPTER THREE Academic "Psychiatry" and the Rise of Galenic Observation 140
- CHAPTER FOUR Witchcraft and the Melancholy Interpretation of the Insanity Defense 182
- CHAPTER FIVE Court Fools and Their Folly: Image and Social Reality 228
- CHAPTER SIX Pilgrims in Search of Their Reason 277
- Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations 322
- Epilogue 385
- Bibliography 391
- Index 427
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments vii
- Contents xi
- Tables and Maps xii
- Illustrations xiv
- Abbreviations xv
- Introduction 1
- CHAPTER ONE Historical Problems: Sin, St. Vitus, and the Devil 25
- CHAPTER TWO Two Reformers and a World Gone Mad: Luther and Paracelsus 80
- CHAPTER THREE Academic "Psychiatry" and the Rise of Galenic Observation 140
- CHAPTER FOUR Witchcraft and the Melancholy Interpretation of the Insanity Defense 182
- CHAPTER FIVE Court Fools and Their Folly: Image and Social Reality 228
- CHAPTER SIX Pilgrims in Search of Their Reason 277
- Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations 322
- Epilogue 385
- Bibliography 391
- Index 427