Re: psychoceramics: Mad Monarchs

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acb, or a reasonable fascimile thereof, wrote:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madmon.htm
> A web page detailing historical examples of madness among royalty,
> from ancient Babylon to the 19th century.
Cf. H. C. Erik Midelfort, _Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany_
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994), which describes not only
the madnesses, but also (and of greater psychoceramic interest) the treatments
(where treatment was felt called for; in some cases it wasn't).  The writing is
a bit dry and academic, but the subject is rich, and one hopes that someone
will take up Midelfort's effort and give us mad Englishmen, Frenchmen,
Italians, Poles, etc., of the Renaissance.

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
-- 
	http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the
satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a
despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.  --- Kai Lung

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