Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe

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.

About the author

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