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- catalog abstract ""This work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled sufferers to seek help in pilgrimage or newly founded hospitals for the helplessly disordered. In the process, the author uses the history of madness as a lens to illuminate the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the history of poverty and social welfare, and the history of princely courts, state building, and the civilizing process."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10875065.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""This work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled sufferers to seek help in pilgrimage or newly founded hospitals for the helplessly disordered. In the process, the author uses the history of madness as a lens to illuminate the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the history of poverty and social welfare, and the history of princely courts, state building, and the civilizing process."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-425) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 438 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804733341 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0804741697 (paperback : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog subject "618.89/00943/09031 21".
- catalog subject "Community Psychiatry Germany History.".
- catalog subject "History, 16th Century Germany.".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Germany History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "RC450.G3 M528 1999".
- catalog subject "Social psychiatry Germany History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "WM 11.GG4 M629 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany / H.C. Erik Midelfort.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".