Madness in Medieval Law and Custom
Biographical note
Wendy J. Turner—Ph.D. (2000) History, UCLA, Associate Professor of History at Augusta State University—works on medieval mental health, as in, “Mental Incapacity and Financing War in Medieval England” (The Hundred Years War, 2: Different Vistas (Brill, 2008).
Readership
All scholars and advanced students interested in the history of mental health, disabilities, law, cultural dynamics, and medieval society.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Wendy J. Turner
Town and Country: A Comparison of the Treatment of the
Mentally Disabled in Late Medieval English Common Law
and Chartered Boroughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Wendy J. Turner
Insanity, Exculpation and Disempowerment in Byzantine
Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Margaret Trenchard-Smith
The Mysterious Case of the ‘Mad’ Rector of Bletchingdon:
The Treatment of Mentally Ill Clergy in Late Thirteenth-
Century England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
James R. King
Silent Testimony: Emotional Displays and Lapses in Memory
as Indicators of Mental Instability in Medieval English
Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Wendy J. Turner
Crimes of Passion: Emotion and Madness in French
Remission Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Aleksandra Pfau
Royal Madness and the Law: The Role of Anger in
Representations of Royal Authority in Eleventh- and
Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Kate McGrath
viii contents
The King’s Stupor: Dealing with Royal Paralysis in Late
Medieval England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Cory James Rushton
A Cure for the King means Health for the Country:
The Mental and Physical Health of Henry VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Wendy J. Turner
Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Irina Metzler
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Wendy J. Turner
Town and Country: A Comparison of the Treatment of the
Mentally Disabled in Late Medieval English Common Law
and Chartered Boroughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Wendy J. Turner
Insanity, Exculpation and Disempowerment in Byzantine
Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Margaret Trenchard-Smith
The Mysterious Case of the ‘Mad’ Rector of Bletchingdon:
The Treatment of Mentally Ill Clergy in Late Thirteenth-
Century England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
James R. King
Silent Testimony: Emotional Displays and Lapses in Memory
as Indicators of Mental Instability in Medieval English
Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Wendy J. Turner
Crimes of Passion: Emotion and Madness in French
Remission Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Aleksandra Pfau
Royal Madness and the Law: The Role of Anger in
Representations of Royal Authority in Eleventh- and
Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Kate McGrath
viii contents
The King’s Stupor: Dealing with Royal Paralysis in Late
Medieval England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Cory James Rushton
A Cure for the King means Health for the Country:
The Mental and Physical Health of Henry VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Wendy J. Turner
Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Irina Metzler
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
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