God-Denying Fools and the Medieval ‘Religion of Love’

Kolve, V. A.

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“…186 -193). It is hard to know how many people suffered from lovesickness in medieval Europe, but it was a theme in medieval literature (Huot, 2003;Kolve, 1997). For example, Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain went mad after he was rejected by his wife.…”

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“…2Late medieval writers on the discernment of spirits appeared to take it for granted that it is rational to believe in God and follow His prescriptions. There was a medieval tradition of thinking that those who denied God were foolish (e.g., Kolve, 1997). …”

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“…Late medieval writers on the discernment of spirits appeared to take it for granted that it is rational to believe in God and follow His prescriptions. There was a medieval tradition of thinking that those who denied God were foolish (e.g.,Kolve, 1997). This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.…”

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Mental disorder and mysticism in the late medieval world.

Kemp

2019

History of Psychology

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During the later Middle Ages, a number of religiously oriented people behaved in ways that we would consider unusual, yet it was unusual for them to be regarded as mentally disordered. This article reviews late medieval thinking and practice with regard to mental disorder and also with regard to the discernment of spirits, that is, how it could be decided whether an experience or impulse to do something was the consequence of God or a good spirit, an evil spirit, or some purely human cause. Many of the criteria for discerning a good spirit were behavioral, for example, consistently showing humility and discretion, and were clearly distinct from those displayed in mental disorder. A comparison of the criteria for mental disorder with those used to discern spirits shows how the distinction between mental disorder and religious experience could have been made and why confusion of the two seems to have been rare.

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