Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26414-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Later Medieval Europe

The boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence – form the core of this compilation. For medieval men and women, religious rituals, magic, herbs, dietary requirements as well as to scholastic medicine were a way to cope with the vagaries of mental wellbeing; the focus of the articles is on the interaction and osmosis between lay and elite cultures as well as medical, theological and political theories and practical experiences of daily life.
Time span of the volume is the later Middle Ages, c. 1300-1500. Geographically it covers Western Europe and the comparison between Mediterranean world and Northern Europe is an important constituent.
Contributors are Jussi Hanska, Gerhard Jaritz, Timo Joutsivuo, Kirsi Kanerva, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Marko Lamberg, Iona McCleery, Susanna Niiranen, Sophie Oosterwijk, and Catherine Rider.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in medieval culture; the medical, religious, intellectual, social, and art history of late medieval Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari

Niiranen, Susanna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations … vii
List of Figures … viii
Acknowledgements … x
Perspectives to Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe … 1
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Susanna Niiranen
How to Get a Melancholy Marquess to Sleep? Melancholy in Scholastic Medicine … 21
Timo Joutsivuo
Demons and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Medicine … 47
Catherine Rider
Anger as a Spiritual, Social and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Swedish Exempla … 70
Marko Lamberg
Signs of Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Visual Evidence … 91
Gerhard Jaritz
Demonic Possession as Physical and Mental Disturbance in the Later Medieval Canonization Processes … 108
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
“Volebam tamen ut nomen michi esset Dyonisius” – Fra Salimbene, Wine and Well-Being … 128
Jussi Hanska
Mental Disorders in Remedy Collections: A Comparison of Occitan and Swedish Material … 151
Susanna Niiranen
Wine, Women and Song? Diet and Regimen for Royal Well-Being (King Duarte of Portugal, 1433–1438) … 177
Iona McCleery
“This Worlde Is but a Pilgrimage”: Mental Attitudes in/to the Medieval Danse Macabre … 197
Sophie Oosterwijk
Disturbances of the Mind and Body: Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland … 219
Kirsi Kanerva
Bibliography … 243
Index … 281

Über Autor(innen)

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.