Madness in medieval law and custom
In: Brill eBook titles
In: Later medieval Europe v. 6
Preliminary Material /Wendy J. Turner -- Introduction /Wendy J. Turner -- Town and Country: A Comparison of the Treatment of the Mentally Disabled in Late Medieval English Common Law and Chartered Boroughs /Wendy J. Turner -- Insanity, Exculpation and Disempowerment in Byzantine Law /Margaret Trenchard-Smith -- The Mysterious Case of the 'Mad' Rector of Bletchingdon: The Treatment of Mentally Ill Clergy in Late Thirteenth-Century England /James R. King -- Silent Testimony: Emotional Displays and Lapses in Memory as Indicators of Mental Instability in Medieval English Investigations /Wendy J. Turner -- Crimes of Passion: Emotion and Madness in French Remission Letters /Aleksandra Pfau -- Royal Madness and the Law: The Role of Anger in Representations of Royal Authority in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Texts /Kate McGrath -- The King's Stupor: Dealing with Royal Paralysis in Late Medieval England /Cory James Rushton -- A Cure for the King means Health for the Country: The Mental and Physical Health of Henry VI /Wendy J. Turner -- Afterword /Irina Metzler -- Bibliography /Wendy J. Turner -- Index /Wendy J. Turner.