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Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Albrecht Classen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

VI, 738 Seiten

2014
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-036087-5 (ISBN)

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This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.

Albrecht Classen, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

"Dies ist ein eindrucksvoller [...] Band. [...] Modernen Lesern führen die handwerklich soliden und vom Herausgeber akkurat redigierten Beiträge eindrucksvoll vor Augen, dass der mittelalterliche Mensch noch viel stärker im Bewusstsein einer fundamentalen Verschränkung von Leib und Seele, Mikro- und Makroskosmos, Erde und Himmel lebte."
Heiko Hartmann in: Mediaevistik 29 (2016), 320-322

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.6.2014
Reihe/Serie	Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 15
Zusatzinfo	27 b/w ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	1200 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Literaturwissenschaft • Madness • Mental Health • Mental health; Madness; Spirituality • Psychische Gesundheit • Spiritualität • Spirituality • Wahnsinn
ISBN-10	3-11-036087-X / 311036087X
ISBN-13	978-3-11-036087-5 / 9783110360875
Zustand	Neuware