Description: Further DetailsTitle: Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval FranceCondition: NewEAN: 9781843845126ISBN: 9781843845126Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/19/2018Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Julie SingerLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Machines, Madness, MetaphorISBN-10: 1843845121Description: An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.At the turn of the fifteenth century it must have seemed to many French people that the world was going mad. King Charles VI suffered his first bout of mental illness in 1392, and he underwent intermittent bouts of frenzy, melancholy and ever-scarcer lucidity until his death in 1422. The king's scarcely mentionable malady was mirrored at every level of social experience, from the irrational civil war through which the body politic tore itself apart, to reports of elevated suicide rates among the common people. In this political environment, where affairs of state were closely linked to the ruler's mental state, French writers sought new ways of representing the psychological dynamics of the body politic. This book explores the innovative mix of organic and inorganic metaphors through which they explored the relationship between mind, body and government at this period; in particular, it considers texts by such authors as Alan Chartier and Charles d'Orléans which describe mental illness and intellectual impairments through the notion of "rust". JULIE SINGER is Associate Professor of French at Washington University, St. Louis.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: GallicaGenre: MedicineItem Weight: 1gTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
Title: Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
EAN: 9781843845126
ISBN: 9781843845126
Release Date: 10/19/2018
Release Year: 2018
Subtitle: Machines, Madness, Metaphor
ISBN-10: 1843845121
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 374 Pages
Publication Name: Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France : Machines, Madness, Metaphor
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Medieval, Royalty, European / French, General, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Weight: 23.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Julie Singer
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Gallica Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
