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

Albrecht Classen

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9783110360875
• eBook ISBN: 9783110377859
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

Abano, Pietro d’ 1

accessus ad auctores 1

Ackermann (see also under The Plowman), Johannes 1, 2, 3, 4

aconite 1

Acta Sanctorum 1, 2

Acta translationis S. Savini martyris 1, 2

Adamhnán 1

Adam Huber of Riesenpach 1, 2

Adamnán 1

adonai 1

Aeneid 1

Aerssen van Sommelsdyck 1

affective piety 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Agallamh Bheag 1, 2, 3

Agallamh na Seanórach 1, 2, 3

Agatha, Saint 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Agnes 1

Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Alask, Adalbert 1

Alberti 1

Albertus Magnus 1, 2, 3, 4

Albich (Albicus) of Uničov 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Alcántara 1

alectoria 1

Alemannia 1

Alexander IV, Pope 1

Alexander of Bergamo 1

Alexis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Al Kindi 1

alternative medicine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Ambrose of Milan, Archbishop 1

Ambrose, St. 1

Amethysts 1

Amis and Amiloun 1

amor hereos 1

Amphipolis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

amulets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Anabaptists 1, 2, 3

Anatomy of Melancholy, Burton 1, 2, 3

An Leabhar Breac 1

Annales Fuldenses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Annals of Connacht 1, 2

Annals of St. Bertin 1, 2, 3

Annals of Tigernach 1, 2

Annals of Xanten 1, 2, 3

Ann, Queen 1

Anselmi, Giorgio 1

Antidotarium Nicolai 1

Antigny 1, 2

antimasques 1, 2, 3, 4

Antoine de La Sale 1, 2, 3

Antoine, Hermit 1

Apocalypse 1

Apologeticum 1

Aponensis, Petrus 1

Aquinas, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

arcana 1, 2, 3

Archidoxen, Paracelsus 1

Ardara 1

Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Armagh 1, 2

Arnaud de Villeneuve 1

Arnoldus Saxus 1

Arnulf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Arte of English Poesie 1

Arthurian Vulgate 1

Asclepius 1, 2, 3

Askew, Anne 1

Astronomia Magna, Paracelsus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

As You Like It, Shakespeare 1

Athanasius 1

Atheism 1, 2

Atheist 1, 2

Atropa belladonna 1

Augustine le Fevere 1

Augustine, St. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

August of Neuburg 1

Aurelianus, Caelius 1, 2

Aurora, Böhme 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

Auxerre 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Ave Maria 1

Avicenna 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Avis 1

Azzo da Correggio 1

Bacon, Francis 1

Bahkthin, Mikhail 1

Baïdilus 1

bakufu 1, 2

balassius 1

Baptista van Helmont, Johann 1, 2, 3

Barnabas 1

Barsamo 1

Bartholomaeus/Bartholomew Anglicus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Bartholomew de Sakeville 1, 2

Basic and Perfect Regimen of Health, Kopp 1

Basilikon Doran, James, King 1, 2

Basilikon Doron or His Majesties Instrvctions To His Dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince 1

Basil of Caesaraea 1

Basil of Seleucia 1, 2

Baskilikon Doron 1

Beatha Colaim Chille 1, 2, 3, 4

Beatha Rónáin 1, 2

Beaumont, Francis 1

Bedlam 1, 2, 3

Benedict XIII, Pope 1, 2

Benkei 1

Beowulf 1

Berenger Pallada 1

Berka, Johannus 1

Berlinghieri, Bonaventura 1

Bernard de Clairvaux 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bernard of Gordon 1, 2, 3

Bernard, St. 1, 2, 3, 4

Bernardus Silvestris 1

Bertheonea 1

Bertheonea, Paracelsus 1

Bertholdsbaar 1

beryls 1

bethada 1, 2

Biathanatos 1, 2

biopsychosocial 1

Bisclavret, Marie de France 1, 2

Black Death 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Boccaccio, Giovanni 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Bodhidharma 1, 2, 3, 4

Boëthius, Ancius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Böhme, Jakob 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Bol, Hans 1, 2

Book of Hours 1

Book of Leinster 1

Book of the Dean of Lismore 1, 2

Book on Regimen 1

Books on the Causes of Plague, Berka 1

Bórama 1, 2

Borgia, Cesare 1

Bosch, Hieronymus 1

Bouches-du-Rhône 1

Bourgain, Pascal 1, 2

Boyle, Robert 1, 2

Bracton treatise 1

Brant, Sebastian 1

Breißgau 1

Brescia 1

Breviarium Bartholomei 1

Breviarium Bartholomei (John Mirfield) 1, 2, 3, 4

Bridget of Sweden 1

Brigit of Kildare, Saint 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

‘Bri-khung 1

Britton 1, 2

Broicsech 1

Brouwer, Adriaen 1

Browne, Thomas 1

Brúilingeach, Giolla Chríosd 1

Bruni, Francesco 1, 2

Buber, Martin 1

Buch der Gebärung, Paracelsus 1

Buch der Natur, Konrad von Megenberg 1, 2

Buddhism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Buile Shuibhne 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43

buke 1

Bumenin, Frena 1

Burton, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Busant 1, 2, 3, 4

bushi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Bushido 1

Caelius Aurelianus 1

Caesarius of Heisterbach 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Caillín, Saint 1

Calatrava 1, 2, 3

Calvin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Campadia 1

Campion, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

camptocormia 1

Canon of Medicine (Avicenna) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

carbuncles 1

Cardano, Geronimo 1

Carloman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Carloman of Bavaria 1

Carr, Robert 1, 2

Cassiano dal Pozzo 1

Cassiodorus 1

Cath Almaine 1, 2

Catherine of Siena 1

Cath Fionntrágha 1, 2, 3

Cath Muighe Mucraimhe 1

Cath Ruis na Ríogh ós Bóinn 1

Cats, Jacob 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Caxton, William 1

Céli Dé movement 1

Celsus, Aulus Cornelius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Černý, Johannus 1

Chang Sanfeng 1

Chanson de Roland 1

Chansons de geste 1

Ch’an (Zen) 1, 2

Chapma 1

Charlemagne 1, 2, 3

Charles III 1, 2, 3

Char...

Table of contents

• Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Constructing the Early Irish Cult of Brigit
• A Prince Under the Spell of the Devil? The Outburst of Charles the Fat in 873 C.E.
• The Epic Hagiography as Scriptural Genre and its Pictorial Rendering in the Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe Crypt Frescos
• Buile Shuibhne: vox insaniae from Medieval Ireland
• At the Crossroads of Religion, Magic, Science and Written Culture
• “But what is to be said of a fool?” Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought and Culture
• Body and Spirit: Martial Practices Among Monastic Orders
• Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages: Affective Piety in the Pricke of Conscience H.M. 128
• Affectus secundam scientiam: Cognitio experimentalis and Jean Gerson’s Psychology of the Whole Person
• A Comparison of the Psychological Insights of Petrarch and Johann Weyer
• Mental Health in Bohemian Medical Writings of the 14th−16th Centuries
• Magic Healing and Embodied Sensory Faculties in Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum
• The Invisible Diseases of Paracelsus and the Cosmic Reformation
• Paracelsus on Mental Health
• Banishing “Franticks” in a Royal Wedding Celebration: Campion’s The Lords’Masque
• Order in Insanity: Eva Margaretha Frölich (d. 1692) and her National Swedish Eschatology
• Melancholy as the Condition of Knowledge in Jakob Böhme’s Aurora
• The Inner Cause and the Better Choice: Anna Maria van Schurman, Self-Fashioning, and the Attraction of the Labadist Religion
• Melancholy, Madness, and Demonic Possession in the Early Modern West
• A Postmodern Perspective on Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion
• List of Illustrations
• Contributors
• Index