CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Mézes Ádám |
|---|---|
| Title | Doubt and Diagnosis: Medical Experts and the Returning Dead of the Southern Habsburg Borderland (1718-1766) |
| Summary | The dissertation interprets the vampire as a case of extraordinary knowledge production on the margins of the known world. I directed the focus at experts entrusted to apply their specialized knowledge on diagnosing the vampiric attack and on regulating the unruly dead. Throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, these expertsserved various social groups: local communities, administrative-judicial structures, aristocratic circles, the republic of letters and aulic political spheres. Thus, historical sources produced on vampires unveil actors, interests and intense negotiations about what is ‘normal’ death and decay, about who is an expert, and what is proof. I argue that knowledge production is social, political, and bears the mark of the environment where it was produced. |
| Supervisor | Kontler, László; Klaniczay, Gábor |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/mezes_adam.pdf |
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