Frenzy in Early Modern England by Philippa Carter
Today, frenzy is the stuff of newspaper headlines. Five hundred years ago, it described a disease which could kill its sufferers within days. This book offers the first full-length study of frenzy, providing a fresh perspective on early modern understandings of mental illness, mind-body relations, and personhood. Frenzy was frightening not just because it killed its sufferers, but because it changed them beyond recognition. It gave the impression that what was then the most precious part of the person - the soul - was as easy to damage as the body. Frenzy in Early Modern England deepens and complicates our sense of what madness meant in this period, both to those who assigned the label, and to those who lived with it. This is an important intervention in the often-fragmented historiography of early modern madness, combining intellectual, social, and cultural history with the history of medicine.-
Popular Politics and the English Reformation
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Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
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Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
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Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms
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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 16501750
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Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 15501640
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The Blind Devotion of the People
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John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s
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Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
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The Chief Governors
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The Early Elizabethan Polity
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London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II
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Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 16601685
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The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
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Georgian Monarchy
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The Family of Love in English Society, 15501630
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Reason and Religion in the English Revolution
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Godly Kingship in Restoration England
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England's Second Reformation
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Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution
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The Common Peace
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William III and the Godly Revolution
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Europe and the Making of England, 16601760
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Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
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Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649
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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
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Godly Reading
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Reformation Unbound
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John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
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Unquiet Lives
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The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 15411641
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The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland
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Religion and the Book in Early Modern England
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Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture
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Print Culture and the Early Quakers
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The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England
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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War
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The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics
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Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
Philippa Carter is a historian of early modern Britain and Europe, with interests in medicine, natural knowledge, belief, and the body. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009703710 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009703714 |
| Title | Frenzy in Early Modern England |
| Author | Philippa Carter |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Early Modern British History |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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