Angus Gowland: 1 book
The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy
Robert Burton in Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
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...
