The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy - Robert Burton in Context - Angus Gowland - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2011 - Engelsk -
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
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.
