Melancholy and the care of the soul
Subtitle: religion, moral philosophy and madness in early modern England
By: Jeremy Schmidt.
Series: The history of medicine in context
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780754657484
Subjects: Melancholy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Melancholy -- England -- History; Depression, Mental -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Depression, Mental -- England -- History; Spiritual healing
Description: "Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and moral philosophical publications, many of which have received only scant attention from modern scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.