Medievalists.net » Psychology http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval mysticism or psychosis? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/28/medieval-mysticism-or-psychosis/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/28/medieval-mysticism-or-psychosis/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:19:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57932 Alison Torn investigates the strange case of Margery Kempe

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/28/medieval-mysticism-or-psychosis/feed/ 0 The influence of conflicting medieval church and social discourses on individual consciousness : dissociation in the visions of Hadewijch of Brabant http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/10/influence-conflicting-medieval-church-social-discourses-individual-consciousness-dissociation-visions-hadewijch-brabant/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/10/influence-conflicting-medieval-church-social-discourses-individual-consciousness-dissociation-visions-hadewijch-brabant/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:43:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53221 This article examines the influence of the conflicting dis- courses in the medieval church and its social context on the subconscious experiences of Hadewijch of Brabant, a 13th century Flemish visionary, mystical author, vernacular theologian and Beguine leader

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/10/influence-conflicting-medieval-church-social-discourses-individual-consciousness-dissociation-visions-hadewijch-brabant/feed/ 0 A Medieval Dream and its Interpretation http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/05/medieval-dream-interpretation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/05/medieval-dream-interpretation/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:00:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53083 Medieval people were also interested in dreams, and they attempted to figure out what they meant. Often a dream would be interpret as a sign of future events, or a divine warning that someone needed to change their ways.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/05/medieval-dream-interpretation/feed/ 0 Melancholia in medieval Persian literature: The view of Hidayat of Al-Akhawayni http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/melancholia-medieval-persian-literature-view-hidayat-al-akhawayni/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/melancholia-medieval-persian-literature-view-hidayat-al-akhawayni/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:22:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51161 This paper aims to review Al-Akhawayni’s 10th century knowledge on melancholia which can represent the early concept of this disorder in the Near East.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/melancholia-medieval-persian-literature-view-hidayat-al-akhawayni/feed/ 0 Dreams in Old Norse-Icelandic Royal Biographies as Representations of the Dynastic Identity: The Case of the Fairhair Dynasty http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/06/dreams-old-norse-icelandic-royal-biographies-representations-dynastic-identity-case-fairhair-dynasty/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/06/dreams-old-norse-icelandic-royal-biographies-representations-dynastic-identity-case-fairhair-dynasty/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:01:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49404 King Hálfdan dreams one day, in a pigsty, that he becomes a man with the finest hair, although the color and length of each ringlet vary. One curl excels in color, brightness and length, signifying St. Olaf, national saint of Norway.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/06/dreams-old-norse-icelandic-royal-biographies-representations-dynastic-identity-case-fairhair-dynasty/feed/ 0 Dreams in medieval Saints’ lives: Saint Francis of Assisi http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/dreams-medieval-saints-lives-saint-francis-assisi/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/dreams-medieval-saints-lives-saint-francis-assisi/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:55:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50428 How do medieval descriptions of dreams or visions reflect spiritual growth? What images are used as rhetorical or hagiographical means? And what can we learn from the interpretation of these spiritual images in a late medieval literary context?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/dreams-medieval-saints-lives-saint-francis-assisi/feed/ 0 Opicinus de Canistris: Yesterday and today http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/08/opicinus-de-canistris-yesterday-and-today/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/08/opicinus-de-canistris-yesterday-and-today/#comments Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:58:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47431 Opicinus is the first maker of anthropomorphic maps of the countries around the Mediterranean, and the first psychotic cartographer and imaginative writer in the historical field of the Psychopathology of Expression.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/08/opicinus-de-canistris-yesterday-and-today/feed/ 0 An outside for the inside : a psychoanalytic reading of The Book of Margery Kempe http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/an-outside-for-the-inside-a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-the-book-of-margery-kempe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/an-outside-for-the-inside-a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-the-book-of-margery-kempe/#comments Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:30:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47294 It is evident in Margery Kempe's visions of holy family life that Virgin and Christ dyad is an oedipal fantasy of the child who is the father of himself.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/an-outside-for-the-inside-a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-the-book-of-margery-kempe/feed/ 0 Plague and Persecution: The Black Death and Early Modern Witch Hunts http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/plague-and-persecution-the-black-death-and-early-modern-witch-hunts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/plague-and-persecution-the-black-death-and-early-modern-witch-hunts/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:06:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47094 The century or so from approximately 1550 to 1650 is a period during which witch-hunts reached unprecedented frequency and intensity. The circumstances that fomented the witch- hunts—persistent warfare, religious conflict, and harvest failures—had occurred before, but witch-hunts had never been so ubiquitous or severe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/plague-and-persecution-the-black-death-and-early-modern-witch-hunts/feed/ 0 Anesthesia Drugs in the Medieval Muslim Era http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/anesthesia-drugs-in-the-medieval-muslim-era/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/anesthesia-drugs-in-the-medieval-muslim-era/#comments Sat, 25 Jan 2014 23:39:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46987 In the Middle Ages, Christian Europe was in a state of intellectual stagnation and the theological doctrine that pain serves God's purpose and must not be alleviated militated against the improvement in methods of narcosis. Nuland points out that the Middle Ages in Europe were dark ages so far as advances in the pharmacology of anesthesia were concerned.

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