Wild melancholy: on the historical plausibility of a black bile theory of blood madness, or h æmatomania - Verplaetse J.

Nineteenth-century art historian John Addington Symonds coined the term h æmatomania (blood madness) for the extremely bloodthirsty behaviour of a number of disturbed rulers like Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya (850-902) and Ezzelino da Romano (1194-1259). A...
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