The jus primae noctis as a male power display: A review of historic sources with evolutionary interpretation
Although 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
Psychological and psychiatric ailments must have baffled early medical practitioners.
Joan of Arc, creative psychopath: is there another explanation?
Many 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
Some aspects of the history of blind education, deaf education, and deaf-blind education with emphasis on the time before 1900.
Medieval Dreams: A Sample of Historical and Psychological Criticism
Deep 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
From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory: Thoughts on Some Early European Conceptualizations of Memory, Morality, and Consciousness By Noel Packard…
The psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period
The psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period By Carolyne Larrington Early Medieval Europe, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2001) Introduction: ‘What…
Madness in the Realm: Narratives of Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
This dissertation situates madness within the specific historical context of late medieval France, before, during, and after the reign of King Charles VI, whose episodes of mental disturbance contributed to the kingdom’s political crises.
From Eve To Eve: Women’s Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
In 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
Positive Reinforcement According to Maimonides, the 12th Century Jewish Philosopher By Michael E Leshtz and Nathan Stemmer Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Vol.39:3…
Dreams that have Never been Dreamt at all: Interpreting Dreams in Medieval Literature
Dreams that have Never been Dreamt at all: Interpreting Dreams in Medieval Literature By Hans-Jürgen Bachorski History Workshop Journal, Vol.49 (2000) Synopsis: In…
Margery Kempe: Madwoman or Mystic – A Narrative Approach to the Representation of Madness and Mysticism in Medieval England
In this paper, I want to examine this contested boundary by discussing my analysis of a medieval woman’s experience of both madness and mysticism.
Psychology and Theodicy in Aquinas
Psychology and Theodicy in Aquinas Bowlin, John R. (University of Tulsa) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998) Abstract Throughout much of this century…
Memory, Individuals, and the Past in Averroes’s Psychology
Despite the resurgence of interest in the medieval conception of memory among scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines within medieval studies, little attention has been paid in recent times to the conception of memory found in the psychological writings of medieval philosophers, especially those from the Arabic tradition.
Phenomenology of the past: Pain and illness in the 12th Century
A 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
As 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
Bertulf or Galbert? Considerations Regarding a Sample of Historical and Psychoanalytical Criticism of Medieval Dreams By Jeroen Deploige Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, Vol.20:2 (2002) Abstract:…
Eighth-Century Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Attitudes to Dreams and Visions
Eighth-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…
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc
A 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
Were medieval jurors more inclined to condemn female self‐killers to a suicide’s death because of the familiar figure of the mad, possessed woman?