Madness in Medieval Law and Custom

Wendy J. Turner—Ph.D. (2000) History, UCLA, Associate Professor of History at Augusta State University—works on medieval mental health, as in, “Mental Incapacity and Financing War in Medieval England” (The Hundred Years War, 2: Different Vistas (Brill, 2008).

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments ... ixAbbreviations ... xiContributors ... xiiiIntroduction ... 1Wendy J. TurnerTown and Country: A Comparison of the Treatment of the Mentally Disabled in Late Medieval English Common Law and Chartered Boroughs ... 17Wendy J. TurnerInsanity, Exculpation and Disempowerment in Byzantine Law ... 39Margaret Trenchard-SmithThe Mysterious Case of the ‘Mad’ Rector of Bletchingdon: The Treatment of Mentally Ill Clergy in Late Thirteenth-Century England ... 57James R. KingSilent Testimony: Emotional Displays and Lapses in Memory as Indicators of Mental Instability in Medieval English Investigations ... 81Wendy J. TurnerCrimes of Passion: Emotion and Madness in French Remission Letters ... 97Aleksandra PfauRoyal Madness and the Law: The Role of Anger in Representations of Royal Authority in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Texts ... 123Kate McGrathThe King’s Stupor: Dealing with Royal Paralysis in Late Medieval England ... 147Cory James RushtonA Cure for the King means Health for the Country: The Mental and Physical Health of Henry VI ... 177Wendy J. TurnerAfterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Irina MetzlerBibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239