The Worlds Of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton In Context

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.

• | By (Author): Angus (University College London) Gowland
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2006
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 358 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0521867681
• | ISBN-13: 9780521867689