The mystic mind : the psychology of medieval mystics and ascetics / / Jerome Kroll and Bernard Bachrach
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| Autore: |
Kroll Jerome
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| Titolo: |
The mystic mind : the psychology of medieval mystics and ascetics / / Jerome Kroll and Bernard Bachrach
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 248.22019 |
| 248.220902 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Asceticism - Psychology |
| Ascetics - Psychology | |
| Mysticism - Psychology | |
| Mystics - Psychology | |
| Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 | |
| Psychology, Religious | |
| Altri autori: |
BachrachBernard S. <1939->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Heroic asceticism and self-injurious behavior; 3 Mysticism and altered states of consciousness; 4 Pain and laceration of the flesh; 5 Sleep deprivation; 6 Fasting and starvation; 7 Historical methods; 8 Pathways to holiness; 9 Radegund; 10 Beatrice of nazareth; 11 Beatrice of ornacieux; 12 Henry suso; 13 Mental illness, hysteria, and mysticism; 14 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing on a database of over 1400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry applies modern biological and psychological research to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The mystic mind |
| ISBN: | 1-134-29768-8 |
| 1-280-46338-4 | |
| 9786610463381 | |
| 0-203-46294-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784685903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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