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A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany /
This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled suf...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Tables and Maps
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE Historical Problems: Sin, St. Vitus, and the Devil
- CHAPTER TWO Two Reformers and a World Gone Mad: Luther and Paracelsus
- CHAPTER THREE Academic "Psychiatry" and the Rise of Galenic Observation
- CHAPTER FOUR Witchcraft and the Melancholy Interpretation of the Insanity Defense
- CHAPTER FIVE Court Fools and Their Folly: Image and Social Reality
- CHAPTER SIX Pilgrims in Search of Their Reason
- Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index