| Description |
1 online resource (1 online resource 239 pages). |
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text file |
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Premodern health, disease, and disability
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Premodern health, disease and disability.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Composing Communities -- 2. Madness as Communal Threat -- 3. Reintegrating Madness -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In medieval France, the collaboration between local communities and greater authorities grants us unusual insight into the period's concept of madness. The mentally ill posed a unique challenge to the law, and, by examining how subjects and officials worked together to define and contain mad individuals, this book analyses the development of that law and the interaction between local and regional communities. The author argues that this struggle often strengthened communities and proto-national identities. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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Mentally ill offenders. |
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Mental illness. |
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Criminal psychology. |
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Civilization, Medieval. |
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HISTORY / General. |
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Criminal psychology.
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Mentally ill offenders -- France -- History -- To 1500.
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France. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Mental illness -- France -- History -- To 1500.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9789048533329 |
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9048533325 |
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9789462983359 |
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9462983356 |
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