| Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany Revised Edition Contributor(s): Midelfort, H. C. Erik (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813915015 ISBN-13: 9780813915012 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $21.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1996 Annotation: 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 to study these princes, and a few princesses, as a group and 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - Psychology | Psychopathology - General - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 616.89 |
| Series: Studies in Early Modern German History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |