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WoMent · 'Mad for Him'. Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Late Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2019-10-01 → 2022-07-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 237 768 €
Участници: 3
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Религиозните преживявания на жени от Средновековието и Ренесанса, като виденията и екстазите, се анализират за откриване на медицински причини като депресия или анорексия. Това помага да се разбере дали тези състояния са били болести или резултат от манипулация от страна на църквата.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

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Резултати накратко

'Mad for Him'. Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Late Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age

This research analysed the biographical and autobiographical texts of late-medieval and early modern women who were deemed to be mystics, blessed, or saints. The main objective was to determine to what extent extreme religious experiences (ecstasies, visions, physical sensations) might be attributable not to unexplainable relations with the Godhead, but to very explainable medical causes. This research considered many cases of mental illness (anorexia, visions, hysterical pregnancies, folie à deux and post-partum depression) in biographical texts of 6 religious women. The project looked to achieve the following main objectives: A) Textual analysis of: sixteenth and seventeenth-century books; manuscripts; digitizations and critical editions B) Analysis of the pictorial cycles and iconographic images representing the lives of religious women C) Analysis of the bibliography allows to identify cases of manipulation of women by father confessors.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This research will analyse the biographical and autobiographical texts of late-medieval and early modern women who were deemed to be mystics, blessed, or saints. The main objective is to determine to what extent extreme religious experiences (ecstasies, visions, physical sensations) might be attributable not to unexplainable relations with the Godhead, but to very explainable medical causes. What their contemporaries saw as mystical experiences can, from our modern perspective, be characterized in medical terms. Questions at the basis of the project are, therefore: what is the boundary between illness and sanctity? Is it possible to draw a demarcation line between alleged miracles and mental illness? What do biographical texts tell us about this? Where, how, and when have these texts come down to us and who has transmitted them? This research will consider five cases of mental illnessess (anorexia, visions, hysterical pregnancies, folie à deux and post-partum depression) in biographical texts of six religious women: St.Lutgardis of Aywières †1246, St.Angela of Foligno †1309, the Bl.Giustina of Arezzo †1319, St.Margareta Ebner †1351, Margery Kempe †1438, Bl.Colomba of Rieti †1501. These six women may well illustrate a broad spectrum of diseases. This research is important because: a) biographical texts that reveal how women saints lived their daily lives marked by ecstasies and mental alterations, that have not yet been fully investigated; b) similar studies exist, but they focused only on a single nervous disease and were limited mostly to Italian women saints; c) current studies have not taken into account the fundamental iconographic sources.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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