Emotions and health, 1200-1700 / edited by Elena Carrera.

Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 examines the Aristotelian and Galenic understandings of the ‘passions’ or ‘accidents of the soul’ as alterations of both mind and body across a wide range of medieval and early modern cultural discourses: Aquinas’s Summa , canonization inquests, medical and natural phi...

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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 168
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 168.
Physical Description:1 online resource (259 p.)
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  • Description based upon print version of record.
  • Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Emotions and psychological health in Aquinas / Nicholas E. Lombardo
  • Tempted to kill : miraculous consolation for a mother after the death of her infant daughter / Nicole Archambeau
  • Fear, fantasy and sleep in medieval medicine / William F. MacLehose
  • Anger and the mind-body connection in medieval and early modern medicine / Elena Carrera
  • Non-natural love : coitus, desire, and hygiene in medieval and early modern Spain / Michael R. Solomon
  • A disease unto death : sadness in the time of Shakespeare / Erin Sullivan
  • Medicine, psychology, and the melancholic subject in the Renaissance / Angus Gowaland
  • Music and spirit in early modern thought / Penelope Gouk.