'Onbeschaamde geleerden hebben zijn naaktheid betast.' Het vertoog over genealiteit, waanzin en degeneratie in België omstreeks 1900

'Impudent scholars have fondled his naked body.' The discourse on genius, madness and degeneracy in Belgium around 1900 In the late nineteenth century two publications on the subject of 'genius' provoked a storm of controversy. The first, by Cesare Lombroso entitled 'L...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: R. de Bont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2002-01-01
Series:BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
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Online Access:https://ojstest.minions.amsterdam/article/view/4038