Madmen and a Melancholic: Allusions to Health and the Anointing of the Sick in Polemics of the Hussite Period

Madmen and a Melancholic: Allusions to Health the Anointing of Sick in Polemics Hussite Period Hussitism regarded as heresy was perceived terms disease healthy body Church. In particular, raids by troops were interpreted category madness, furor Hussitarum. However, side also saw controversies regarding health issues. John Borotín, physician Utraquist, made long-distance diagnosis psychiatric condition his adversary, Capistrano. Reformist radicals considered principles pondered whether rite sacrament or not. Although medical allusions not main rhetorical tool used religious disputes, such examples can be found there.