{"product_id":"medieval-communities-and-the-mad-narratives-of-crime-and-mental-illness-in-late-medieval-france-9789462983359","title":"Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France 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. Those considered mad were usually not expelled but integrated, often through pilgrimage, surveillance, or chains, into their kin and communal relationships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume represents a valuable contribution to the recent trend of scholarship in mad studies and disability studies that has turned toward legal and documentary evidence for information about lived historical experiences of mental illness. Perhaps the volume’s most helpful and portable contribution, however, is its illumination of the collaborative and socially constructed nature of these “nonfictional” narrative sources.\" \u003cbr\u003e- Chelsea Silva, \u003ccite\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/cite\u003e, Vol. 97, No. 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e I. Language and Narrative \u003cbr\u003e II. Historiography on Madness \u003cbr\u003e III. Structure of the Book \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Composing Communities: Languages of Madness in Remission Letters \u003cbr\u003e I. Letters of Remission \u003cbr\u003e II. Languages of Madness from Families and Notaries \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Madness as Communal Threat \u003cbr\u003e I. Reconstructing a Life Narrative \u003cbr\u003e II. Moments of Rupture: Crimes against the family and the community \u003cbr\u003e III. Proofs of Madness \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Reintegrating Madness: The Mad in Their Communities \u003cbr\u003e I. Reputation and Renown \u003cbr\u003e II. Community Concern: Chains, Cures, Recoveries and Relapses \u003cbr\u003e III. Acts of Communal Justice: Sorcerers and Remission \u003cbr\u003e IV. Understanding the Mad \u003cbr\u003e Conclusions \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e List of Tables","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473230434647,"sku":"9789462983359","price":101.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789462983359.jpg?v=1744905795","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medieval-communities-and-the-mad-narratives-of-crime-and-mental-illness-in-late-medieval-france-9789462983359","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}