History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Name: History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
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ISBN: 9780804741699

ISBN-10: 0804741697

ISBN-13: 9780804741699

Edition: 1999

Authors: H. C. Erik Midelfort

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This is a wide-ranging overview of madness from the point of view of sufferers and authorities.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Tables and Maps


Illustrations


Abbreviations


Introduction



Historical Problems: Sin, St. Vitus, and the Devil



Two Reformers and a World Gone Mad: Luther and Paracelsus



Academic "Psychiatry" and the Rise of Galenic Observation



Witchcraft and the Melancholy Interpretation of the Insanity Defense



Court Fools and Their Folly: Image and Social Reality



Pilgrims in Search of Their Reason



Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index