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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: $22.58  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 1996
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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.

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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Germany
- Psychology | Psychopathology - General
- History | Modern - 18th Century
Dewey: 616.89
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: Studies in Early Modern German History
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.75 lbs) 220 pages
 
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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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