Itineraries and Languages of Madness in the Early Modern World: Family Experience, Legal Practice, and Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany

ISBN-13: 9780367528287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 284 str.

Mariana Labarca

Opis

Drawing on a wide range of sources including interdiction procedures, records of criminal justice, documentation from mental hospitals, and medical literature, this book provides a comprehensive study of the spaces in which madness was recorded in Tuscany during the eighteenth century.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Interdiction Procedures: A Context for Public Intervention in Family Life  2. Mad Spendthrift Men: Prodigality as a Category of Mental Incapacity  3. Beyond financial mismanagement: Interdictions by Reason of Demenza  4. Spaces and Itineraries of Madness  5. Experts and Authorities on Madness  6. Emotional Disturbances and the Circulation of the Languages of Madness  Conclusion

O autorze

Mariana Labarca is Assistant Professor at the History Department of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile