Mental health, spirituality, and religion in the Middle Ages and early Modern age / edited by Albrecht Classen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Classen, Albrecht, editor.

Series:

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 15.

Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Middle High German, 1050-1500--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Mental illness in literature.

Mental illness--History.

Mental illness.

Religion in literature.

Visions in literature.

Visions--History.

Visions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (738 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction / Classen, Albrecht

Constructing the Early Irish Cult of Brigit / Dhonnchadha, Maedhbh M. Nic

A Prince Under the Spell of the Devil? The Outburst of Charles the Fat in 873 C.E. / Sosnowski, Xenia

The Epic Hagiography as Scriptural Genre and its Pictorial Rendering in the Saint- Savin-sur-Gartempe Crypt Frescos / Danziger, Rosemarie

Buile Shuibhne: vox insaniae from Medieval Ireland / Béarra, Feargal Ó

At the Crossroads of Religion, Magic, Science and Written Culture / Niiranen, Susanna

"But what is to be said of a fool?" Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought and Culture / Buhrer, Eliza

Body and Spirit: Martial Practices Among Monastic Orders / Ross, Lia B.

Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages: Affective Piety in the Pricke of Conscience H.M. 128 / Jost, Jean E.

Affectus secundam scientiam: Cognitio experimentalis and Jean Gerson's Psychology of the Whole Person / Taylor, Scott L.

A Comparison of the Psychological Insights of Petrarch and Johann Weyer / Benedek, Thomas G.

Mental Health in Bohemian Medical Writings of the 14th−16th Centuries / Tomíček, David

Magic Healing and Embodied Sensory Faculties in Camillo Leonardi's Speculum Lapidum / Leopardi, Liliana

The Invisible Diseases of Paracelsus and the Cosmic Reformation / Weeks, Andrew

Paracelsus on Mental Health / Willard, Thomas

Banishing "Franticks" in a Royal Wedding Celebration: Campion's The Lords'Masque / Sandidge, Marilyn

Order in Insanity: Eva Margaretha Frölich (d. 1692) and her National Swedish Eschatology / Andersson, Bo

Melancholy as the Condition of Knowledge in Jakob Böhme's Aurora / Westhagen, Florian / Karnitscher, Tünde Beatrix

The Inner Cause and the Better Choice: Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Fashioning, and the Attraction of the Labadist Religion / Moffitt Peacock, Martha

Melancholy, Madness, and Demonic Possession in the Early Modern West / Coudert, Allison P.

A Postmodern Perspective on Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion / Oberman, Hester E.

List of Illustrations

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110377859

3110377853

OCLC:

895008582