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Title:
Madness in medieval law and custom / edited by Wendy J. Turner.
Publisher:
Brill,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xv, 252 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Psychiatry--Europe--History--To 1500.
Mental illness--Europe--History--To 1500.
Insanity (Law)--Europe--History--To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval--Europe--History--To 1500.
Mental Disorders--history--England.
Mental Disorders--history--France.
Mentally Ill Persons--legislation & jurisprudence--England.
Mentally Ill Persons--legislation & jurisprudence--France.
Forensic Psychiatry--history--England.
Forensic Psychiatry--history--France.
History, Medieval--England.
History, Medieval--France.
Politics--England.
Politics--France.
Other Authors:
Turner, Wendy J. (Wendy Jo), 1961-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
Later medieval Europe, 1872-7875 ; v. 6
ISBN:
9004187499 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004187498 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)632070365
LCCN:
2010020322
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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