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SUMMARY:Mental illness and cognitive impairment in central and late mediev
 al Normandy: attitudes and responses - Elma Brenner (Wellcome Trust Librar
 y)
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CONTACT:Peter Murray Jones
DESCRIPTION:In central and late medieval Normandy\, the experiences of the
  mentally ill and the cognitively impaired were shaped by factors as varie
 d as customary law\, the institutional settings for their care and confine
 ment\, and the medical and spiritual understanding of their afflictions. T
 his paper will focus on the legal\, institutional and spiritual aspects of
  responses to the mentally ill and cognitively impaired in Normandy betwee
 n c. 1100 and c. 1500. My study of Normandy aims to complement the substan
 tial work completed on mental illness in medieval England by Wendy Turner 
 and others\, as well as to explore the rich monastic\, legal and civic sou
 rces for Normandy in relation to this topic. My paper will begin by examin
 ing how madness was addressed in Norman customary law\, and discussing exa
 mples of how the issues raised in the law code were dealt with in practice
 . Next\, I will examine the different institutional (and non-institutional
 ) contexts in which those with mental disorders in Normandy were restraine
 d and cared for. Finally\, I will analyze an early twelfth-century account
  of the miraculous cure of a mad woman from Bayeux\, in terms of how it ev
 idences the spiritual and social dimensions of attitudes and responses to 
 mental illness.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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