A Study Of The State Of Living Of The Mentally Handicapped In The Late Middle Ages

Insane is a kind of a disease caused by disorder of perception,cognition,emotion or behavioral that can cause immeasurable damage to people's physical and mental health and cause harm to the family and society.Therefore,it is very important to pay attention to and study the Insane.Modern medicine,especially before the creation of modern psychiatry,the late medieval England did not have a dominant position against the spirit of the disease,the community also have varying degrees of knowledge of mental illness,and to take different measures.On the survival of the England mental disorders to conduct a comprehensive and detailed study of the study,you can outline the special status of the England community as well as the status of medical development.The full essay consists of four parts:introduction,text,conclusion and reference,in which the text is divided into four chapters.The introduction mainly introduces the present situation of research on this topic and related issues in domestic and foreign academic circles,and summarizes the academic value and significance of this topic.Foreign scholars on late medieval mental disorders living state research data is very rich and research history is also very long,based on the study of predecessors,the author specifically on the British mental disorders were studied.The first chapter focuses on the general profile of mental disorders in the late Middle Ages of England.First of all,the size of the population of mental disorders in the England,from the beginning of 13th century,the size of the England mental disorder increased year by year,during the black death,because of the fear of death and the pressure,the population scale of insane to reach the peak.At the same time,the amount of wealth of groups of mental disorders will also affect the situation after the illness.And the size of the group of mental disorders had a great influence on the England society at that time.The second chapter mainly discusses the treatment of mental disorders in the late medieval England.Confined by the medical theory at that time,the medical profession on the understanding of mental illness mainly based on the reinforcing method and Astronomical medicine.humoral theory that mental disorders is due to the imbalance of four kinds of humoral.Astronomical medicine that mental disorders related to a variety of celestial bodies.Based on this understanding,the doctor at that time mainly through the reinforcing method,immersion method and other measures to achieve the balance of humoral,but also to take the awakening method,music method to alleviate the mental illness.In the third chapter,the author mainly discusses the salvation of the Church of England in the late middle ages.The main theme of the medieval church's understanding of disease and disaster is evil.The Church of England in the late Middle Ages believed that mental disorder was mainly caused by the God punish and possessed.Therefore,the relief of the England Church mainly around the insane is exorcism,prayer,pilgrimage and other activities to start relief and comfort.In the fourth chapter,the author mainly discusses the understanding and custody of mental disorders in the late secular society of the Middle Ages.First of all,the understanding of secular society on the mental disorders,mainly by the influence of religion and medicine,secular society argue that the mental disorders are possessed,meanwhile,the mental disorders also are idiots who lost rational and thinking.Secondly,the author discusses the guardianship of medieval government of Britain for the mentally disabled.finally discuss the measures taken by the folk on the mental disorder.The last part is the summary,references and acknowledgements.