Medieval Communities and the Mad
The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. This book considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered mad. The madness of individuals played a role in engaging communities with legal mechanisms...
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2021
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| description | The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. This book considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered mad. The madness of individuals played a role in engaging communities with legal mechanisms and proto-national identity constructs, as petitioners sought the king's mercy as an alternative to local justice. The resulting narratives about the mentally ill in late medieval France constructed madness as an inability to live according to communal rules. Although such texts defined madness through acts that threatened social bonds, those ties were reaffirmed through the medium of the remission letter. The composers of the letters presented madness as a communal concern, situating the mad within the household, where care could be provided. These mad were usually not expelled but integrated, often through pilgrimage, surveillance, or chains, into their kin and communal relationships. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-277972025-07-30T09:34:51Z Medieval Communities and the Mad Pfau, Aleksandra Nicole History History Europe Medieval History Europe France thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. This book considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered mad. The madness of individuals played a role in engaging communities with legal mechanisms and proto-national identity constructs, as petitioners sought the king's mercy as an alternative to local justice. The resulting narratives about the mentally ill in late medieval France constructed madness as an inability to live according to communal rules. Although such texts defined madness through acts that threatened social bonds, those ties were reaffirmed through the medium of the remission letter. The composers of the letters presented madness as a communal concern, situating the mad within the household, where care could be provided. These mad were usually not expelled but integrated, often through pilgrimage, surveillance, or chains, into their kin and communal relationships. 2021-02-10T13:18:01Z 2021-02-10T13:18:01Z 2021-01-23T04:30:34Z 2020 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46255 9789048533329 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27797 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46255/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46255/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46255/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46255/1/external_content.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 Knowledge Unlatched 9789048533329 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Amsterdam University Press open access |
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