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Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe

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Mental (Dis)order in the Late Middle Ages sketches the boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder - unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence - and focuses on the interaction between lay and elite cultures.


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Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Ph.D. (2006) is Research Fellow at the University of Tampere. She has published monographs and articles on medieval lived religion, gender and family, including Gender, Miracles and Daily Life. The Evidence of Fourteenth-Century Canonization Processes (Brepols, 2009).
Susanna Niiranen, Ph.D. (2009) is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. She has edited several books including a wide-ranging interdisciplinary handbook of medieval studies. She has published articles on various subjects of medieval culture, such as troubadours and trobairitz, healing, and multilingualism.


Product details

Assisted by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa (Editor), Susanna Niiranen (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 13.03.2014
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
 
EAN 9789004264144
ISBN 978-90-04-26414-4
Pages 286
Dimensions (packing) 16.1 x 24.1 x 2.2 cm
Weight (packing) 596 g
 
Series Later Medieval Europe > 12
Subjects Psychologie: Emotionen, Geschichte der Medizin, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History, Christi Geburt bis ca. 1500
 

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