A list of the reading material used by this sites participants is detailed below. The list is not exhaustive, there are an abundance of scholarly works on mental illness in the early modern period as well as online databases such as Reading Early English Medicine.
Alexander, Murray, Suicide in the Middle Ages, (Oxford, 1998).
Amy M. Froide, Never Married: Single Women in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Angus, Gowland, The Problem of Early Modern Melancholy, (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Anne-Marie Kilday, A History of Infanticide in Britain c.1600 to the Present (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Aristotle, The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva, ed. Jennifer Radden (New York, 2000).
Brian Gibbons, Back to the Future: Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III and Shakespeare’s Kings (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2018).
Brian P. Levack, The Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (New Haven, 2013).
Campbell, Dodgson, Albrecht Durer, (London, 1926).
Caroline Joan Picart, Thomas, Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, Music, and Laughter, (Amsterdam, 1999).
Catherine Arnold, ,Bedlam: London and Its Mad (London, 2008).
Christi Sumich, Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers: How Practicing Medicine Became a Respectable Profession (New York, 2013).
Christopher Hibbert, George III: A Personal History (London: Viking, 1998).
Clarisse Doris Hellman,The Comet of 1577: Its Place in the History of Astronomy, (Columbia, 1944).
Darren, Oldridge, The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England, (New York, 2016).
Elaine Leong, ‘‘Herbals she peruseth’: Reading Medicine in Early Modern England’, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 28, No. 4, (September 2014), pp. 556–578.
Elaine Leong, ‘Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household’, Centaurus, Vol. 55, (2013), pp. 81–103.
Elizabeth Lane, Furdell,The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (New York, 2001).
English Broadside Ballads <https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/search_combined/?ss=green+sickness>.
Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, 4th Edition, (Princeton, 1955).
F. Wallis, Medieval Medicine: A Reader, (Toronto, 2010).
Galen, The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva, ed. Jennifer Radden,(New York, 2000).
George Abbot, An Exposition Upon the Prophet Jonah, (London, 1600).
George Cheyne, A Treatise on Health and Long Life, (London, 1787).
George III | Biography, Madness, & Facts’, Encyclopedia Britannica <https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-III>.
Giotto Di Bondone, Desperatio, (Padua, 1306).
Gibbons, Brian, Back to the Future: Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III and Shakespeare’s Kings (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2018)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, ed. Llewellyn Worldwide, (St. Paul, 1993).
Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum, (Cologne, 1486).
Helen, King, ‘Green Sickness: Hippocrates, Galen and the Origins of the “Disease of Virgins”’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 2 (1996).
Herbert C. Covey, Social Perceptions of People with Disabilities in History, (Springfield, 1998).
J. A. Sharpe, ‘Disruption in the Well-Ordered Household: Age, Authority and Possessed Young People’ in The Experinace of Autrhoirity in Early Modern England, eds Paul Griffiths, Adam Fix and Steve Hindle (Basingstoke, 1996).
Jennifer Buckley, ‘Maternal Impressions: The Discourse of Maternal Imagination in the Eighteenth Century’ (PhD thesis, University of Southampton, 2014)
Mary Tofts (2009) <http://www.godalmingmuseum.org.uk/index.php?page=mary-tofts> [accessed 20/04/2019].
J. F. Payne, “Archer, John (fl. 1660–1688), medical practitioner.” 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-624.
John Byrne, A Treatise on the Causes and Consequences of Habitual Constipation, (Philadelphia, 1840).
Laura Gowing, ‘Secret Births and Infanticide in Seventeenth-Century England’, Past & Present, 165 (1997), 87-115.
Lesel Dawson, “‘A Thirsty Womb’: Lovesickness, Green Sickness, Hysteria, and Uterine Fury.” In Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford, 2008).
Mary Fissell, ‘The Market Place of Print’, in Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, c. 1450–c. 1850, ed. by Mark S R Jenner and Patrick Wallis (London, 2007).
‘Melencholia 1’, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336228, The Met, https://www.metmuseum.org/, [accessed 28/04/2019].
Michael MacDonald & Terence R. Murphy, Sleepless Souls, (Oxford, 1990).
Michael MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England, (Cambridge, 1981).
Michael Macdonald, Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London (London, 1991).
Michael MacDonald, ‘The Medicalization of Suicide in England: Laymen, Physicians, and Cultural Change, 1500-1870’, in Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History, eds. Charles E. Rosenberg, Janet Lynne Golden, (New Jersey, 1997).
Mortality Analysis Team, ‘Suicides in the UK: 2017 registrations’, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2017registrations, Office for National Statistics, https://www.ons.gov.uk/, [accessed 25/03/2019].
Noel L. Bran, Trithemius and Magical Theology: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe, (New York, 1999).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), January 1688, Sinah Jones (t16880113-1) [accessed 29/04/2019].
P. Almond, Introduction. In: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England, (Cambridge, 2004).
Patrik Doorly, ‘Dürer’s “Melencolia I”: Plato’s Abandoned Search for the Beautiful’, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, No. 2 (June, 2004), pp. 255-276.
Paul Slack, ‘Mirrors of heath and Treasures of Poor Men: the uses of the vernacular medical literature of Tudor England’, in Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Charles Webster, (Cambridge, 1979).
Peter C. Hoffer, Hull, N.E.H., Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England 1558-1803 (New York: New York University Press, 1984).
R. Briggs, Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. (Oxford, 2002).
Rebecca and Ann Ellis Hanson, Flemming, ‘Hippocrates’ “Peri Partheniôn’ (Diseases of Young Girls): Text and Translation’ Early Science and Medicine, 3 (1998).
Richard Godbeer, The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England, (Cambridge, 1994).
Robert, Burton,The Anatomy of Melancholy Vol. 1, (Oxford, 1621).
Robb-Smith, A. H. T. , review of Review of George III and the Mad-Business,
Roy Porter, Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society, (Cambridge, 2002).
S Kemp and K Williams, ‘Demonic possession and mental disorder in medieval and early modern Europe’, Psychological Medicine, 17 (1987) .
Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher, The Routledge history of sex and the body: 1500 to the present, (Abingdon, 2013) .
Sir John Everett Millias, Ophelia, (Surrey, 1852).
St. Andre Nathanael, A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (London: Printer for John Clarke, 1727).
The Curious Case of Mary Toft (2009) <http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/aug2009.html> [accessed 20/04/2019].
Cox ,Timothy M. et al., King George III and Porphyria: An Elemental Hypothesis and Investigation, (2005)
Vassiliki Rentoumi et al., ‘The Acute Mania of King George III: A Computational Linguistic Analysis’ (2017)
Winfried Schleiner, ‘Early Modern Green Sickness and Pre-Freudian Hysteria’ Early Science and Medicine, 14 (2009).
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, (London, 1589).
William Shakespeare, King Lear, (1605).
William Sweetser, Mental Hygiene, (New York, 1850).
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