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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Premodern health, disease, and disability |
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Premodern health, disease and disability.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Composing Communities -- 2. Madness as Communal Threat -- 3. Reintegrating Madness -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Mental illness -- France -- History -- To 1500.
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Mentally ill offenders -- France -- History -- To 1500.
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Criminal psychology.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Civilisation médiévale.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Criminal psychology
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Mental illness
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Mentally ill offenders
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France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500
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| Indexed Term |
Madness, Insanity Defense, Pardon, Community. |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pfau, Aleksandra. Medieval communities and the mad. Narratives of crime and mental illness in late medieval France. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2018 9789462983359 (OCoLC)1019660483 |
| ISBN |
9789048533329 (electronic bk.) |
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9048533325 (electronic bk.) |
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9789462983359 |
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9462983356 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000068406748 |
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AU@ 000068649347 |
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