Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy - Robert Burton in Context

Informationen zum Autor Angus Gowland is Lecturer in Intellectual History at University College London. Klappentext An investigation of the theory of melancholy and its applications in the Renaissance. Zusammenfassung Approaching the Anatomy of Melancholy as the culmination of early modern medical! philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy! Gowland examines how Robert Burton exploited the moral psychology central to the Renaissance understanding of the condition to construct a critical vision of his intellectual and political environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Conventions; Introduction; 1. The medical theory of melancholy; 2. Dissecting medical learning; 3. Melancholy and divinity; 4. The melancholy body politic; 5. Utopia, consolation, and withdrawal; Conclusion: Robert Burton's melancholy; Bibliographies.

Product details

• Authors: Angus Gowland, Angus (University College London) Gowland
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2006
• EAN: 9780521867689
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86768-9
• No. of pages: 358
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education