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Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (Hardcover)
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Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (Hardcover)
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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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.
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