Melancholy, Madness, and Demonic Possession in the Early Modern West

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Constructing the Early Irish Cult of Brigit 155
5. A Prince Under the Spell of the Devil? The Outburst of Charles the Fat in 873 C.E. 175
6. The Epic Hagiography as Scriptural Genre and its Pictorial Rendering in the Saint- Savin-sur-Gartempe Crypt Frescos 206
7. Buile Shuibhne: vox insaniae from Medieval Ireland 242
8. At the Crossroads of Religion, Magic, Science and Written Culture 290
9. “But what is to be said of a fool?” Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought and Culture 314
10. Body and Spirit: Martial Practices Among Monastic Orders 344
11. Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages: Affective Piety in the Pricke of Conscience H.M. 128 387
12. Affectus secundam scientiam: Cognitio experimentalis and Jean Gerson’s Psychology of the Whole Person 406
13. A Comparison of the Psychological Insights of Petrarch and Johann Weyer 424
14. Mental Health in Bohemian Medical Writings of the 14th−16th Centuries 464
15. Magic Healing and Embodied Sensory Faculties in Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum 480
16. The Invisible Diseases of Paracelsus and the Cosmic Reformation 507
17. Paracelsus on Mental Health 524
18. Banishing “Franticks” in a Royal Wedding Celebration: Campion’s The Lords’Masque 557
19. Order in Insanity: Eva Margaretha Frölich (d. 1692) and her National Swedish Eschatology 579
20. Melancholy as the Condition of Knowledge in Jakob Böhme’s Aurora 593
21. The Inner Cause and the Better Choice: Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Fashioning, and the Attraction of the Labadist Religion 607
22. Melancholy, Madness, and Demonic Possession in the Early Modern West 647
23. A Postmodern Perspective on Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion 690
24. List of Illustrations 712
25. Contributors 715
26. Index 725