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This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.

History of civilization --- Christian spirituality --- Religious studies --- anno 500-1499 --- 248 "04/14" --- Mental illness in literature. --- Mental illness --- Religion in literature. --- Visions in literature. --- Visions --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Middeleeuwen --- History. --- Mental illness in literature --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature --- Maladies mentales --- Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne --- Religious aspects --- Themes, motives --- Aspect religieux --- Thèmes, motifs --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Religion in literature --- Visions in literature --- History --- Mental health. --- madness. --- spirituality.

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The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia?s troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not only as a medical or psychological matter, but also as a metaphysical one, encompassing problems of suffering, imagination, history, sex, social and world order, evil, retribution, death, and the afterlife.Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture represents a joint effort by American, British, and Russian scholars ? historians, literary scholars, sociologists, cultural theorists, and philosophers ? to understand the rich history of madness in the political, literary, and cultural spheres of Russia. Editors Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky have brought together essays that cover over 250 years and address a wide variety of ideas related to madness ? from the involvement of state and social structures in questions of mental health, to the attitudes of major Russian authors and cultural figures towards insanity and how those attitudes both shape and are shaped by the history, culture, and politics of Russia.

Mental illness --- Mental illness in literature. --- Literature and mental illness --- Psychiatry --- Genius and mental illness --- Mentally ill --- Maladies mentales --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature. --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- Psychiatrie --- Génie et maladies mentales --- Malades mentaux --- Madness --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mental health --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Authors, Insane --- Mental illness and literature --- Poets, Insane --- Medicine and psychology --- Genius and insanity --- Insanity and genius --- Mental illness and genius --- Insane --- Mental patients --- Mentally disordered --- Sick --- People with mental disabilities --- History. --- Histoire. --- Patients --- Russia (Federation) --- Civilization. --- Maladies mentales dans la litterature. --- Litterature et maladies mentales --- Genie et maladies mentales