So Distracted a State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3195653 |
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| Authors | Kate Chedgzoy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 279-283 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbp014 |
| OpenAlex | W1995900452 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In 1608 Dionys Fitzherbert, an unmarried gentlewoman in her late twenties, experienced a social, physical, spiritual and emotional crisis which catapulted her into a state that those around her called madness. Ashamed because she had been left short of money by her father, and so could not honour her obligations by buying her mistress a New Year gift, Fitzherbert tried to evade her inadequacy by feigning illness and taking to her bed. Excruciated by further shame at her own dishonesty, when a kindly member of the household brought a baked apple to her in bed, Fitzherbert could not help but choke on it. Equally, she could not help but understand that choking as a sign of and judgement on her sin: the core stuck in my throat and trembled me very much, and I (who now thought everything was a judgment of God upon me for my sin) persuaded myself...
Anxiety · Art · Chivalry · Choking · Criminology · Embarrassment · Honour · Instinct · Judgement · Literature · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Seriousness · Shame · Shyness · Sign (mathematics) · State (computer science) · Early Modern Women Writers · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Medicine · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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