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The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health- Front Cover 1 The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of figures 9 List of contributors 10 Introduction to the history of madness and mental health 14 PART I: Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds 30 Chapter 1: Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period 32 Madness in the Hebrew Bible 32 Late antiquity: Halacha and Aggada 45 Conclusion 51 Notes 52 Chapter 2: Ancient Greek and Roman traditions 55 “Madness” in the Graeco-Roman world 55 The Greeks and the irrational 55 Legal and social aspects 57 Ancient medical ideas 58 Fifth and early fourth-century medical authors: the authors of the Hippocratic Corpus 59 The first psychiatric taxonomy of antiquity: Cornelius Celsus 63 The philosophers and mental wellbeing 65 Galen 66 Later nosology and encyclopedias 68 Notes 70 Texts used 74 Chapter 3: Madness in the Middle Ages 75 Introduction 75 The aetiology of madness 76 Provision for the mad 82 Literature and art 85 Notorious madmen and madwomen 86 Beyond the Christian West: Byzantium and Islam 87 Conclusions 88 Notes

Author

Greg Eghigian

Language

EN