The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

(Part of the Ideas in Context Series and Ideas in Context Series)

by Angus Gowland

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Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy, Gowland examines the ways in which Burton exploited the moral psychology central to the Renaissance understanding...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521867681

ISBN13:9780521867689

Release Date:November 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:358 Pages

Weight:1.57 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.0"

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