The Icelandic Sagas and the idea of personality and deviant personalities in the Middle Ages

History of Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 2-46, 2001, Pages 199-212

  Høyersten, Jon Geir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY; ICELAND; LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY;

HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; ICELAND; LITERATURE; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY;

EID: 0035379364     PISSN: 0957154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957154x0101204604     Document Type: Article

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