Description This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to Madness in England and in New Jersey.
Moreover, the civil law governing the response to Madness i.
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.
Description This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to Madness in England and in New Jersey