1st Edition
Itineraries and Languages of Madness in the Early Modern World Family Experience, Legal Practice, and Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany
By Mariana Labarca
Copyright 2021
296 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Drawing on a wide range of sources including interdiction procedures, records of criminal justice, documentation from mental hospitals, and medical literature, this book provides a comprehensive study of the spaces in which madness was recorded in Tuscany during the eighteenth century. It proposes the notion of itineraries of madness, which, intended as an heuristic device, enables us to examine... Read more
Introduction
1. Interdiction Procedures: A Context for Public Intervention in Family Life
2. Mad Spendthrift Men: Prodigality as a Category of Mental Incapacity
3. Beyond financial mismanagement: Interdictions by Reason of Demenza
4. Spaces and Itineraries of Madness
5. Experts and Authorities on Madness
6. Emotional Disturbances and the Circulation of the Languages of Madness
Conclusion
Biography
Mariana Labarca is Assistant Professor at the History Department of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile
