Medieval Communities and the Mad : Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France /
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 in...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Composing Communities
- 2. Madness as Communal Threat
- 3. Reintegrating Madness
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index