@article{Vassiliadou_2022, title={Special Section I: Mad, Bad or Sad? Unruly Passions and Actions in Modern Greece (Introduction)}, volume={18}, url={https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/31312}, abstractNote={<p>More than a century ago, Dutch historian Johan Huizinga wrote, in a book that<br>would become a bestseller, The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919): “One may well<br>ask, … is joyfulness and quiet happiness nowhere to be found? To be sure, the age<br>left in its records more traces of its suffering than of its happiness. Its misfortunes<br>became its history.”1 Although Huizinga was referring to the Middle Ages, the<br>authors of this special section, all modern historians, are quite familiar with<br>the idea that available historical documents often chart human “misfortunes”<br>rather than pleasure and happiness. From across the nineteenth and twentieth<br>centuries, a period that roughly charts the chronological range of all articles in<br>this section, available primary sources still provide ample information on what<br>was forbidden, controlled or punished, sketching a vivid picture of modernity’s<br>historical subjects being criminalised, punished, castigated and redeemed.2 All<br>five articles that follow revolve around “unruly” passions and “unnatural” actions<br>in Greece, and belong to this long historical tradition of dealing with what<br>different cultures in different times excluded from “normality”.3 They document<br>how several public and private discourses attempted to express, decode, classify,<br>punish, prevent or even cure a number of undesired social realities, such as homicides,</p> <p>mental and sexual “abnormalities” or “dysfunctions”, and nervous<br>and emotional “disorders”.</p>}, number={1}, journal={The Historical Review/La Revue Historique}, author={Vassiliadou, Dimitra}, year={2022}, month={Sep.}, pages={13–18} }