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Itineraries and Languages of Madness in the Early Modern World - Family Experience, Legal Practice, and Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany (Hardcover)
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Itineraries and Languages of Madness in the Early Modern World - Family Experience, Legal Practice, and Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
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Drawing on a wide range of sources including interdiction
procedures, records of criminal justice, documentation from mental
hospitals, and medical literature, this book provides a
comprehensive study of the spaces in which madness was recorded in
Tuscany during the eighteenth century. It proposes the notion of
itineraries of madness, which, intended as an heuristic device,
enables us to examine records of madness across the different
spaces where it was disclosed, casting light on the connections
between how madness was understood and experienced, the language
employed to describe it, and public and private responses devised
to cope with it. Placing the emotional experience of the Tuscan
families at the core of its analysis, this book stresses the
central role of families in the shaping of new understandings of
madness and how lay notions interacted with legal and medical
knowledge. It argues that perceptions of madness in the eighteenth
century were closely connected to new cultural concerns regarding
family relationships and family roles, which resulted in a shift in
the meanings of and attitudes to mental disturbances.
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