Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy Moran James
Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy Moran James This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and…
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Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy Moran James
This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred year period, greatly influenced how those from England's propertied classes understood and responded to madness. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation.
Drawing on a well-preserved and rare collection of trials in lunacy in New Jersey, this book reveals the important ties of civil law, local custom and perceptions of madness in transatlantic perspectives. Moreover, the civil law governing the response to madness in England was successfully exported into several of its colonies, including New Jersey. This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in law, medicine, psychiatry and madness studies, as well as contemporary
Madness on Trial Moran James