How you can Follow Us!
Medieval News
Psychology Archive
-
Strategic Insights: The Battle of Crecy
Posted on March 25, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper will explore and analyze strategic decision making by Edward III, King of England, and Philip VI, King of France, at the Battle of Crecy using the critical thinking model as a conceptual framework, in conjunction with egocentrism and sociocentrism as the two main cognitive frames of reference. -
The study of emotions in early medieval history: some starting points
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe challenge of making sense of the emotional worlds of past individuals and cultures see, as first, to be particularly acute for the early Middle Ages. -
In a spin: the mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsAs the dance turned epidemic, troubled nobles and burghers consulted local physicians. Having excluded astrological and supernatural causes, the members of the medical fraternity declared it to be a ‘natural disease’ caused by ‘hot blood’. -
The jus primae noctis as a male power display: A review of historic sources with evolutionary interpretation
Posted on January 15, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough most historians would agree today that there is no authentic proof of the actual exercise of the custom in the Middle Ages, disagreements persist concerning the origin, meaning, and development of a widespread popular belief in this alleged “right” and the existence of symbolic gestures associated with it. -
Dreaming of dwarves: Nightmares and Shamanism in Anglo-Saxon Poetics and the Wid Dweorh Charm
Posted on January 8, 2012 | No CommentsPsychological and psychiatric ailments must have baffled early medical practitioners. -
Joan of Arc, creative psychopath: is there another explanation?
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsMany of these facts can be explained by the hypothesis that Joan of Arc suffered from tuberculosis with a temporal lobe tuberculoma and tuberculous pericarditis. -
The development of education for deaf people
Posted on December 4, 2011 | No CommentsSome aspects of the history of blind education, deaf education, and deaf-blind education with emphasis on the time before 1900. -
Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, a.d. 750–950
Posted on September 25, 2011 | No CommentsVolcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, a.d. 750–950 McCormick, Michael, Dutton, Paul Edward and Mayewski, Paul A. Speculum Vol.82 (2007) Abstract Revolutionary advances of the natural sciences will transform our understanding... -
Medieval Dreams: A Sample of Historical and Psychological Criticism
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsDeep into the Middle Ages, in Western Europe a small group of clergymen, mainly monks, had a monopoly on recording dreams in writing -
From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory
Posted on May 8, 2011 | No CommentsFrom Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory: Thoughts on Some Early European Conceptualizations of Memory, Morality, and Consciousness By Noel Packard and Christopher Chen AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST, Vol.... -
The psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period
Posted on April 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period By Carolyne Larrington Early Medieval Europe, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2001) Introduction: ‘What I am after is not hard and... -
Madness in the Realm: Narratives of Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
Posted on March 26, 2011 | No CommentsMadness in the Realm: Narratives of Mental Illness in Late Medieval France By Aleksandra Nicole Pfau PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2008 Abstract: This dissertation situates madness within the specific... -
From Eve To Eve: Women’s Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
Posted on March 10, 2011 | No CommentsIn fictionalized accounts of women's dreams from Old and Middle English texts, women's dreams are repeatedly connected with the concept of deception, portraying the woman dreamer in the position of deceived, deceiver, or both. -
Positive Reinforcement According to Maimonides, the 12th Century Jewish Philosopher
Posted on February 13, 2011 | No CommentsPositive Reinforcement According to Maimonides, the 12th Century Jewish Philosopher By Michael E Leshtz and Nathan Stemmer Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Vol.39:3 (2006) Introduction: Maimonides, arguably the most influential... -
Dreams that have Never been Dreamt at all: Interpreting Dreams in Medieval Literature
Posted on February 3, 2011 | No CommentsDreams that have Never been Dreamt at all: Interpreting Dreams in Medieval Literature By Hans-Jürgen Bachorski History Workshop Journal, Vol.49 (2000) Synopsis: In this essay I will approach the problem... -
Margery Kempe: Madwoman or Mystic – A Narrative Approach to the Representation of Madness and Mysticism in Medieval England
Posted on December 29, 2010 | No CommentsMargery Kempe: Madwoman or Mystic – A Narrative Approach to the Representation of Madness and Mysticism in Medieval England By Alison Torn Narrative and Fiction: an Interdisciplinary Approach, edited by... -
Psychology and Theodicy in Aquinas
Posted on October 19, 2010 | No CommentsPsychology and Theodicy in Aquinas Bowlin, John R. (University of Tulsa) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998) Abstract Throughout much of this century the most prominent exegetes maintained that Aquinas’s... -
Phenomenology of the past: Pain and illness in the 12th Century
Posted on April 27, 2010 | No CommentsA study of pain in the twelfth century reveals pain to have been embedded in culture. Pain had sense as a natural, social, and spiritual experience. -
Satanism: Similarities between patient accounts and pre-inquisition historical sources
Posted on April 12, 2010 | No CommentsAs early as the fourth century, we see documented certain elements of a 'satanic' mass: 1) it is a secret feast; 2) a sexual orgy; 3) with reversals of elements of the Christian mass... -
Bertulf or Galbert? Considerations Regarding a Sample of Historical and Psychoanalytical Criticism of Medieval Dreams
Posted on December 31, 2009 | No CommentsBertulf or Galbert? Considerations Regarding a Sample of Historical and Psychoanalytical Criticism of Medieval Dreams By Jeroen Deploige Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, Vol.20:2 (2002) Abstract: This is a review article on Rudi... -
Eighth-Century Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Attitudes to Dreams and Visions
Posted on July 24, 2009 | No CommentsEighth-Century Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Attitudes to Dreams and Visions By Jesse Keskiaho Ennen Ja Nyt, Vol.4 (2004) Introduction: In Anglo-Saxon England, Christianised from the late 6th century onwards by groups of Roman, Irish... -
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc
Posted on February 14, 2009 | No CommentsA great many of the tragedies of the past must have been caused by mental disease which was undetected and misunderstood. Such a case may well have been that of Joan of Arc. -
Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England
Posted on October 4, 2008 | No CommentsWere medieval jurors more inclined to condemn female self‐killers to a suicide's death because of the familiar figure of the mad, possessed woman?