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Autore |
Schmidt Jeremy <1977-, > |
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Titolo |
Melancholy and the care of the soul : religion, moral philosophy and madness in early modern England / / Jeremy Schmidt |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-351-91834-6 |
1-138-25273-5 |
1-315-24920-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 pages) |
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Collana |
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The history of medicine in context |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Melancholy - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Melancholy - England - History |
Depression, Mental - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Depression, Mental - England - History |
Spiritual healing |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Therapeutic languages : ancient moral philosophy and patristic Christianity -- 2. Melancholy among the passions in seventeenth-century thought -- 3. The pastoral care of melancholy in Calvinist England -- 4. Anglicanism, melancholy, and the restoration critique of "enthusiasm" -- 5. The "puritan tradition"? Nonconformist practical divinity and the critique of "enthusiasm" -- 6. From religious despair to hypochondria : the language of melancholy transformed -- 7. Curing Augustan hysterics : morality, politics, and religion. |
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