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Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe
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- When:
- August 24, 2026 · 12:00 PM
- Where:
- Virtual
- Source:
- 6AM City Richmond – Events
Register Medieval saints were thought to be able to provide miraculous cures for a wide variety of illnesses, and the restoration of sanity to those who had lost their minds accounts for about 10% of them in the high and later Middle Ages. Based on a monograph which explores four hundred and sixty of those stories through the lens of disability, this talk will consider how medieval texts classified the function and malfunction of consciousness as deriving either from natural causes or from the p
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