Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)

by KatharineHodgkin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $62.31

  What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside, asking how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote.