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
September 11, 2011 By
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
May 8, 2011 By
From 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. 48: 10 (2005) Abstract: How did human memory activity, conceived of as an activity that helped bring a person closer to God, become affiliated with […]
The psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period
April 10, 2011 By
The 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 testable in the narrow empirical ways of a certain style of social science’ warns the legal historian W.I. Miller, a pioneer in the field of […]
Madness in the Realm: Narratives of Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
March 26, 2011 By
Madness 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 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 […]
From Eve To Eve: Women’s Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
March 10, 2011 By
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
February 13, 2011 By
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 (2006) Introduction: Maimonides, arguably the most influential Jewish scholar ever, offers an analogy remarkably similar in “spirit” to positive reinforcement approaches to education. While discussing a matter of faith in his commentary […]
Dreams that have Never been Dreamt at all: Interpreting Dreams in Medieval Literature
February 3, 2011 By
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 this essay I will approach the problem of dreams and what they mean in literature by considering three contrasting uses of dreams in medieval German literature, in the Nibelungenlied (about 1200), the […]
Margery Kempe: Madwoman or Mystic – A Narrative Approach to the Representation of Madness and Mysticism in Medieval England
December 29, 2010 By
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
October 19, 2010 By
Psychology 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 mature moral psychology is fundamentally voluntarist, that he considers the will an independent cause of action, most conspicuously in his later works. Disagreement over the […]
Memory, Individuals, and the Past in Averroes’s Psychology
October 4, 2010 By
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
April 27, 2010 By
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
April 12, 2010 By
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
December 31, 2009 By
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: This is a review article on Rudi Künzel’s proposed historical and psychoanalytical critique of medieval dreams. Firstly, the authenticity criteria proposed by Künzel are discussed critically. In particular, doubts are raised about […]
Eighth-Century Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Attitudes to Dreams and Visions
July 24, 2009 By
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 century onwards by groups of Roman, Irish and Frankish missionaries, there was a flourishing monastic culture, which exerted its own missionary influence to the Continent by the early eighth-century. The varied origins […]
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc
February 14, 2009 By
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
October 4, 2008 By
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?
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