Tag: Women’s history

• January 28, 2022

  Sanity and Succession: Pre-Modern Mental Health and Courts in Crisis 

  “On the thirteenth day, Heaven and Earth clashed and the sun and the moon turned black. When this calamity happened, how could I desire to live one second longer!” – Lady Hyegyong, The Memoir of 1795 “Dispute not with her, she is a lunatic.” – the Marquess of Dorset on Queen Margaret, Richard III (I, sc. 3) Oy, […]