Melancholy; As It Proceeds From The Disposition and Habit, The Passion of Love, and The Influence of Religion; Drawn Chiefly from The Celebrated Work Intitled Burton s Anatomy of Melancholy; and in Which The Kinds, Causes, Consequences and Cures of This English Malady

Robert Burton

Verlag: T. Maiden, 1801

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1801, Melancholy; As It Proceeds From The Disposition and Habit, The Passion of Love, and The Influence of Religion; Drawn Chiefly from The Celebrated Work Intitled Burton s Anatomy of Melancholy; and in Which The Kinds, Causes, Consequences and Cures of This English Malady. Original Full-Leather. Decorative end pieces and Frontispiece. 420 pages with index. 8vo. In good condition, with library stamp and bookplate of former owner. Moderate foxing throughout and soiling of prelims. Loose endpapers. Decorative gilt chalice motif on spine with raised bands. See photos. Robert Burton was a English scholar at Oxford University, best known for his The Anatomy of Melancholy. Focusing on the humors, in particular black bile, he examines malady and melancholy. These symptomatic emotions were caused by an excess of so said black bile , Burton hoped to ease patients of these illnesses. He made the humour theory fashionable during his lifetime. Melancholy was responsibly for the wild passions and despairs of love, the frenzies of madmen, and the studious abstraction exemplified by scholars such as Shakespeare or Milton. He wrote melancholy as a sufferer of lifelong depression. Disease, allopathy. COLH1801CFHA. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLH1801CFHA

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Titel: Melancholy; As It Proceeds From The ...

Verlag: T. Maiden

Erscheinungsdatum: 1801

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

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