Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Ph.D. (2006) is Research Fellow at the University of Tampere. She has published monographs and articles on medieval lived religion, gender and family, including Gender, Miracles and Daily Life. The Evidence of Fourteenth-Century Canonization Processes (Brepols, 2009).Susanna Niiranen, Ph.D. (2009) is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. She has edited several books including a wide-ranging interdisciplinary handbook of medieval studies. She has published articles on various subjects of medieval culture, such as troubadours and trobairitz, healing, and multilingualism.

• Abbreviations … viiList of Figures … viiiAcknowledgements … xPerspectives to Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe … 1Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Susanna NiiranenHow to Get a Melancholy Marquess to Sleep? Melancholy in Scholastic Medicine … 21Timo JoutsivuoDemons and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Medicine … 47Catherine RiderAnger as a Spiritual, Social and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Swedish Exempla … 70Marko LambergSigns of Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Visual Evidence … 91Gerhard JaritzDemonic Possession as Physical and Mental Disturbance in the Later Medieval Canonization Processes … 108Sari Katajala-Peltomaa“Volebam tamen ut nomen michi esset Dyonisius” – Fra Salimbene, Wine and Well-Being … 128Jussi HanskaMental Disorders in Remedy Collections: A Comparison of Occitan and Swedish Material … 151Susanna NiiranenWine, Women and Song? Diet and Regimen for Royal Well-Being (King Duarte of Portugal, 1433–1438) … 177Iona McCleery“This Worlde Is but a Pilgrimage”: Mental Attitudes in/to the Medieval Danse Macabre … 197Sophie OosterwijkDisturbances of the Mind and Body: Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland … 219Kirsi KanervaBibliography … 243Index … 281

"This is an important addition to recent literature on the history of mental health, health and diet regimen, public health and disabilities in the Middle Ages. It is readable and interesting, and it would make a good addition to a course on medieval health or medieval disabilities. An advanced undergraduate would find this interesting, as would the scholar."Wendy Turner, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 2, DOI:10.1093/shm/hkv013, Accessed on: 2 May, 2015"This wide-ranging collection of articles, edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen, will constitute a welcome addition to the bookshelves of medievalists dealing with themes of mental health and illness, or with the history of the emotions in the later medieval period... the volume succeeds both in bringing diverse scholarly approaches into a rewarding dialogue with one another and in presenting a pleasurable book to read...I enjoyed all parts of the volume and found it to be a valuable resource which I can whole-heartedly recommend. The essays enrich one another admirably when read together."Nancy Mandeville Caciola, English Historical Review cxxxii. 556 (June 2017)