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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.
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Albrecht Classen (Ed.) Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
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Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Edited by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge
Volume 15
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Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Edited by Albrecht Classen
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ISBN 978-3-11-036087-5 e-ISBN 978-3-11-036164-3 ISSN 1864-3396 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2014 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: Johanna Boy, Brennberg Printing and binding: CPI buch bücher GmbH, Birkach ∞ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com
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Contents Albrecht Classen Introduction 1 Maedhbh M. Nic Dhonnchadha Constructing the Early Irish Cult of Brigit
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Xenia Sosnowski A Prince Under the Spell of the Devil? The Outburst of Charles the Fat in 873 C.E. 175 Rosemarie Danziger The Epic Hagiography as Scriptural Genre and its Pictorial Rendering in the Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe Crypt Frescos 206 Feargal Ó Béarra Buile Shuibhne: vox insaniae from Medieval Ireland
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Susanna Niiranen At the Crossroads of Religion, Magic, Science and Written Culture Eliza Buhrer “But what is to be said of a fool?” Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought and Culture
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Lia B. Ross Body and Spirit: Martial Practices Among Monastic Orders
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Jean E. Jost Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages: Affective Piety in the Pricke of Conscience H.M. 128 387 Scott L. Taylor Affectus secundam scientiam: Cognitio experimentalis and Jean Gerson’s Psychology of the Whole Person 406 Thomas G. Benedek A Comparison of the Psychological Insights of Petrarch and Johann Weyer
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David Tomíček Mental Health in Bohemian Medical Writings of the 14th−16th Centur