A Surprising History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment in Society
by Michèle Schindler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781399092449
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-07-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
272 Pages
In 1495, William, Viscount Beaumont, was declared unfit to take care of himself and given into the care of a guardian, due to unspecified mental health problems. Notably, his treatment was very kind, and runs contrary to many of our ideas of late medieval attitudes to mental illnesses.
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