TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pfau,Aleksandra
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Medieval Communities and the Mad : : Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France / 
T2  - Premodern health, disease, and disability
SN  - 9789048533329
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Mentally ill offenders
KW  - fast
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Criminal psychology
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Composing Communities --; 2. Madness as Communal Threat --; 3. Reintegrating Madness --; Conclusions --; Bibliography --; Index; Open Access
N2  - In medieval France, the collaboration between local communities and greater authorities grants us unusual insight into the period's concept of madness. The mentally ill posed a unique challenge to the law, and, by examining how subjects and officials worked together to define and contain mad individuals, this book analyses the development of that law and the interaction between local and regional communities. The author argues that this struggle often strengthened communities and proto-national identities
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/82196/
ER  -