
Mental Illnesses in the Middle Ages and their Reflection in the South Slavonic Hagiographic Literature
Author(s) -
Ekaterina Todorova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia ceranea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2449-8378
pISSN - 2084-140X
DOI - 10.18778/2084-140x.11.23
Subject(s) - contextualization , insanity , middle ages , reflection (computer programming) , mental disease , history , classics , philosophy , psychology , psychiatry , ancient history , linguistics , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , programming language
The main points are related to the cultural-anthropological (Michel Foucault) and theological contextualization of diseases (Jean-Claude Larchet) and their treatment in the Middle Ages. Based on the South Slavonic hagiographic literature, the terms physician and healer are defined and specified. The study focuses on the mental disease (insanity), which according to the methodology of Larchet is three types: somatic nature of madness, the madness of demonic origin, and madness of spiritual origin. Also partly concerns the problem of God fools’ insanity.