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

Author:   Albrecht Classen
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Volume:   15
ISBN:  

9783110360875


Pages:   744
Publication Date:   16 June 2014
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   Albrecht Classen
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.186kg
ISBN:  

9783110360875


ISBN 10:   311036087
Pages:   744
Publication Date:   16 June 2014
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Dies ist ein eindrucksvoller [...] Band. [...] Modernen Lesern f hren die handwerklich soliden und vom Herausgeber akkurat redigierten Beitr ge eindrucksvoll vor Augen, dass der mittelalterliche Mensch noch viel st rker im Bewusstsein einer fundamentalen Verschr nkung von Leib und Seele, Mikro- und Makroskosmos, Erde und Himmel lebte. Heiko Hartmann in: Mediaevistik 29 (2016), 320-322


"""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"


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


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

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