Both “illness and temptation of the enemy”: melancholy, the medieval patient and the writings of King Duarte of Portugal (r. 1433–38)

Recent historians have rehabilitated King Duarte of Portugal, previously maligned and neglected, as an astute ruler and philosopher. There is still a tendency, however, to view Duarte as a depressive or a hypochondriac, due to his own description of his melancholy in his advice book, the Loyal Counselor. This paper reassesses Duarte's writings, drawing on key approaches in the history of medicine, such as narrative medicine and the history of the patient. It is important to take Duarte's views on his condition seriously, placing them in the medical and theological contexts of his time and avoiding modern retrospective diagnosis. Duarte's writings can be used to explore the impact of plague, doubt and death on the life of a well-educated and conscientious late-medieval ruler

Allocution du nouveau Président

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Conclusion

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Hans Patze, éd., Der deutsche Territorialstaat im 14. Jahrhundert

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Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jean Béranger, correspondant étranger de l'Académie

Guenée Bernard. Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Jean Béranger, correspondant étranger de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 133ᵉ année, N. 2, 1989. pp. 463-464

J. M. W. Bean, The Decline of English Feudalism, 1250-1540

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, D. E. Queller et S. J. Stratton

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