Screen LibraryMental health, spirituality, and religion in the middle ages and early modern age /
Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at The University of Ari...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture;
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| Summary: |
Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at The University of Arizona in May 2013 addressing all these issues from a variety of perspectives, inviting us to consider them especially through a historical lens. |
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1 online resource (vi, 738 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110361643 |
| Index Number: | PN682 |
| CLC: | I109.3 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Constructing the Early Irish Cult of Brigit / A Prince Under the Spell of the Devil? The Outburst of Charles the Fat in 873 C.E. / The Epic Hagiography as Scriptural Genre and its Pictorial Rendering in the Saint- Savin-sur-Gartempe Crypt Frescos / Buile Shuibhne: vox insaniae from Medieval Ireland / At the Crossroads of Religion, Magic, Science and Written Culture / "But what is to be said of a fool?" Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought and Culture / Body and Spirit: Martial Practices Among Monastic Orders / Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages: Affective Piety in the Pricke of Conscience H.M. 128 / Affectus secundam scientiam: Cognitio experimentalis and Jean Gerson s Psychology of the Whole Person / A Comparison of the Psychological Insights of Petrarch and Johann Weyer / Mental Health in Bohemian Medical Writings of the 14th 16th Centuries / Magic Healing and Embodied Sensory Faculties in Camillo Leonardi s Speculum Lapidum / The Invisible Diseases of Paracelsus and the Cosmic Reformation / Paracelsus on Mental Health / Banishing "Franticks" in a Royal Wedding Celebration: Campion s The Lords Masque / Order in Insanity: Eva Margaretha Fr lich (d. 1692) and her National Swedish Eschatology / Melancholy as the Condition of Knowledge in Jakob B hme s Aurora / The Inner Cause and the Better Choice: Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Fashioning, and the Attraction of the Labadist Religion / Melancholy, Madness, and Demonic Possession in the Early Modern West / |