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Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany

Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany

Midelfort, H. C. Erik

Paperback

Series: Studies in Early Modern German History

General World HistoryGerman HistoryMental Health

ISBN10: 0813915015
ISBN13: 9780813915012
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Jan 29 1996
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

During the sixteenth century close to thirty German dukes, landgraves, and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad- so mentally disordered that serious steps had to be taken to remove them from office or to obtain medical care for them. This book is the first study these princes, and a few princesses, as a group in context. The result is a flood of new light on the history of Renaissance medicine and of psychiatry, on German politics and in the century of Reformation, and on the shifting Renaissance definitions of madness.

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