Elizabeth W Mellyn: 1 book
Mad Tuscans and Their Families
A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their households...
