Medievalists.net » TED Talks http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 What Does Normal Look Like? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/16/what-does-normal-look-like/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/16/what-does-normal-look-like/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:59:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59801 Thomas Hoccleve was a fifteenth-century clerk and poet who suffered a mental breakdown around 1416. In his poem, which we now call Hoccleve's Compleint, he describes his depression and anxiety about not being able to convince his friends and co-workers that he has recovered.

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