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MACDONALD, Michael P.

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

1981 CE

#13554

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …

1990 CE

#13555

Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.

"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…

1991 CE

#13556

Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case.