Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

Hodgkin, Katharine

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“…In the historiography, medical historians of madness have been reluctant explore these emotional expressions, although several authors have attempted to combine the fields of the history of medicine and emotion (e.g. Hodgkin, 2007 ; Porter, 1987 ). For the pre-modern period in particular, this has proved to be a problematic endeavour, mainly because of difficulties in interpreting emotions and the limitations of the sources available to us.…”

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Strategic voices of care and compassion. Describing the mad, their afflictions and situations in Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Kerk

2017

Hist Psychiatry

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Painting a picture of the lives of the early modern mad outside institutions has not yet been done in the Netherlands. However, by looking at notarial documents and admission requests, we can learn more about how the mad were cared for outside the institutions, and the impact their behaviour had on the people close to them. Investigating these sources for both Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has unravelled a story of community care in which families played a key role and used their options strategically. Furthermore, it has also revealed a complicated story about the way communities dealt with the behaviour of the mad, involving great personal struggles, breaking points and compassion.

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Strategic voices of care and compassion. Describing the mad, their afflictions and situations in Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Kerk

2017

Hist Psychiatry

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“…The discernment between melancholy and other forms of sadness and affliction had been a regular feature of both medical and theological writings about melancholy since the late sixteenth century. 84 Timothie Bright dedicated a chapter of his Treatise of Melancholie (1586) to identifying the differences between that disease and the affliction of conscience for sin. 85 Divines regularly quoted the apostle Paul's distinction between a 'godly sorrow', which 'worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of ', and the 'sorrow of the world' that 'worketh death' (II Corinthians 7.…”

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Against Melancholy: Robert Blakeway and the Anglican Definition of an Orthodox Sorrow in Early Eighteenth‐Century England

Gattinoni

2023

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Scholars have long recognized the significance of the concept of ‘enthusiasm’ in eighteenth‐century British culture. Its association with melancholy made it a powerful tool for dealing with religious and political dissent by dismissing enthusiasts' claims to divine inspiration as the delusions of their troubled minds. However, the medicalization of enthusiasm also meant that many Christians felt the need to defend their own faith against accusations that it caused melancholy. By examining and contextualizing Robert Blakeway's essay on religious melancholy, this article explores this latter concern. It suggests that such a preoccupation was related both to the fear of enthusiasm and to the fear of irreligion. Blakeway's essay is presented as an example of a broader effort by Anglican clergy to define an ‘orthodox sorrow’ as a middle way between enthusiastic melancholy and lukewarm indifference. Finally, the article emphasizes the polemical dimension of the vocabulary of sorrow in eighteenth‐century England.

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“…Esto se verifica, por ejemplo, como había planteado Weber, en la concepción de Calvino de una humanidad totalmente depravada, pero también en el concepto luterano de Anfechtung (Scaer, 1983;cfr. Stachniewski, 1991, p. 18), en las fases depresivas de las autobiografías espirituales (Hodgkin, 2007) o en los peligros que encontraba Cristiano en The Pilgrim's Progress: ese peregrinaje alegórico que se convirtió en ejemplar para varias generaciones de protestantes, donde el protagonista se encontraba con el Pantano del Desaliento o el Castillo de las Dudas donde moraba el gigante Desesperación (Bunyan, 1996(Bunyan, [1678Dunan-Page, 2006;Stachniewski, 1991, Capítulo 4). Sin embargo, plantear esto como una prerrogativa exclusiva del protestantismo o como un resultado directo de sus doctrinas tiene una serie de problemas que la historiografía ya ha señalado.…”

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“Sus mandamientos no son penosos”: un abordaje historiográfico de la relación entre protestantismo y aflicción

Gattinoni¹

2022

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En los estudios históricos sobre el protestantismo existe un topos que consiste en asociar distintas denominaciones, en especial el calvinismo, con la producción de un sufrimiento psicológico profundo y patológico. Este tópico deriva en cierta medida de la obra de Max Weber, aunque su origen es más antiguo. Este artículo ofrece un análisis de ese tema en la historiografía sobre el protestantismo inglés. En primer lugar, describe el derrotero de ese problema historiográfico y presenta las críticas que se realizaron en distintos momentos. En segundo término, da cuenta de los aportes recientes de la historia de las emociones que podrían permitir un enfoque superador. Finalmente, destaca la necesidad de observar la dimensión polémica de los discursos acerca de la aflicción protestante y sostiene que, para estudiarla, es preciso considerar especialmente el contexto de producción y el vocabulario específico de las fuentes primarias.

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Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

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Strategic voices of care and compassion. Describing the mad, their afflictions and situations in Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Strategic voices of care and compassion. Describing the mad, their afflictions and situations in Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Against Melancholy: Robert Blakeway and the Anglican Definition of an Orthodox Sorrow in Early Eighteenth‐Century England

“Sus mandamientos no son penosos”: un abordaje historiográfico de la relación entre protestantismo y aflicción

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