Representing mental illness in late medieval France : machines, madness, metaphor /

An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Singer, Julie, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2018.
Colección:Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 43.
Temas:
Charles > VI, > King of France, > 1368-1422 > Mental health.
Charles > VI, > King of France, > 1368-1422
To 1500
French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Mental illness in literature.
Literature and society > France > History > To 1500.
Literature, Medieval.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine, Medieval.
Mentally ill women.
Mentally Ill Persons
Literature, Medieval
Medicine in Literature
History, Medieval
Littérature française > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique.
Maladies mentales dans la littérature.
Littérature médiévale.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Médecine médiévale.
Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale.
mentally ill.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine in literature
French literature
Literature and society
Mental health
Mental illness in literature
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Oxidation before oxygen
  • Of metal and men
  • Une enroullure de sapience: instituting princely virtues at the Court of Charles V
  • Metaphors of the body politic
  • Le fer en la playe
  • Alain Chartier's rooil de oubliance
  • Epilogue: Men without machines.

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