The Smoke of the Soul [electronic resource] : Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England /
Sugg, R.author.
What was the soul? Christians agreed that it was the immortal core of each human being. Yet there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it could be joined to the body. The Smoke of the Soul explores the anxieties and excitement generated by the mysterious zone where matter met spirit, and where human life met eternity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Physiology of the Soul; 2 The Soul in Three Dimensions: Pietro Pomponazzi and Andreas Vesalius; 3 Aspiring Souls (I): Tamburlaine the Great; 4 Aspiring Souls (II): Doctor Faustus; 5 Painful Inquisition: Body-Soul Problems in Early Modern Christianity; 6 The Differential Soul: Women, Fools and Personal Identity; 7 The Dying Soul (I): Christian Mortalism as Religious Heresy; 8 The Dying Soul (II): Mortalism as Literary Fantasy; 9 Anatomy and the Rise of the Brain
Conclusion: The True Location of the SoulNotes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What was the soul? Christians agreed that it was the immortal core of each human being. Yet there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it could be joined to the body. The Smoke of the Soul explores the anxieties and excitement generated by the mysterious zone where matter met spirit, and where human life met eternity.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
Fiction.
British literature.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.