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| Datum: | 2009 |
| Titel: | Both “illness and temptation of the enemy”: melancholy, the medieval patient and the writings of King Duarte of Portugal (r. 1433–38) |
| Autor*in: | McCleery, Iona |
| Beschreibung: | Recent historians have rehabilitated King Duarte of Portugal, previously maligned and neglected, as an astute ruler and philosopher. There is still a tendency, however, to view Duarte as a depressive or a hypochondriac, due to his own description of his melancholy in his advice book, the Loyal Counselor. This paper reassesses Duarte's writings, drawing on key approaches in the history of medicine, such as narrative medicine and the history of the patient. It is important to take Duarte's views on his condition seriously, placing them in the medical and theological contexts of his time and avoiding modern retrospective diagnosis. Duarte's writings can be used to explore the impact of plague, doubt and death on the life of a well-educated and conscientious late-medieval ruler. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/59918 |
| Quelle: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17546550903136041 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158133 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21874137 |
| AMAD ID: | 573852 |
| Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
