Madness in medieval law and custom / edited by Wendy J. Turner.

Date:
2010
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Publication/Creation

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Physical description

xv, 252 pages ; 25 cm.

Contents

Town and country : a comparison of the treatment of the mentally disabled in late medieval English common law and chartered boroughs / Wendy J. Turner -- Insanity, exculpation, and disempowerment in Byzantine law / Margaret Trenchard-Smith -- The mysterious case of the 'mad' rector of Bletchingdon : the treatment of mentally ill clergy in late thirteenth-century England / James R. King -- Silent testimony : emotional displays and lapses in memory as indicators of mental instability in medieval English investigations / Wendy J. Turner -- Crimes of passion : emotion and madness in French remission letters / Aleksandra Pfau -- Royal madness and the law : the role of anger in representations of royal authority in eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman texts / Kate McGrath -- The King's stupor : dealing with royal paralysis in late medieval England / Cory James Rushton -- A cure for the King means health for the country : the mental and physical health of Henry VI / Wendy J. Turner.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PP.U.AA2
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  • 9789004187498
  • 9004187499