Madness in medieval law and custom

by Turner, Wendy J., (Wendy Jo)

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Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1039577882
Dewey Decimal:362.196/890094

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.

Subjects

Europe History Insanity (Law) Insanity (Law) -- History -- To 1500. -… Medicine, Medieval Medicine, Medieval -- History -- To 150… Mental illness Mental illness -- History -- To 1500. -… Psychiatry Psychiatry -- History -- To 1500. -- Eu… To 1500