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English drama --- Mental illness in literature. --- Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England). --- English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.

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This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.

History of civilization --- Christian spirituality --- Religious studies --- anno 500-1499 --- 248 "04/14" --- Mental illness in literature. --- Mental illness --- Religion in literature. --- Visions in literature. --- Visions --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Middeleeuwen --- History. --- Mental illness in literature --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature --- Maladies mentales --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- Religious aspects --- Themes, motives --- Aspect religieux --- Thèmes, motifs --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Religion in literature --- Visions in literature --- History --- Mental health. --- madness. --- spirituality.