A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany by H.C. Erik Midelfort

A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany

H.C. Erik Midelfort

456 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians;...

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