Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon

ISBN-13: 9780521853477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 384 str.

David Lederer

Opis

This major new study of psychiatry and psychology--during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--traces the struggle between politics and popular culture which influenced the scientific revolution. David Lederer explores the treatment of mental illness in society before the emergence of professional psychiatry, the use of spiritual remedies ('spiritual physic') to deal with physical and mental ailments from melancholy to demonic possession, how early modern people understood the soul and the impact of the Counter-Reformation on all these issues.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Madness, Religion and the State is a well researched historical study and will henceforth count as a standard work on early modern health care and spiritual physic.' German Historical Institute

Spis treści

1. On the soul; 2. Sackcloth and ashes; 3. Bavaria Sancta; 4. Spiritual afflictions; 5. the decline of religious madness; 6. confinement and its vicissitudes; 7. The legacy of spiritual physic.