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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154611903321

Autore

Schmidt Jeremy <1977-, >

Titolo

Melancholy and the care of the soul : religion, moral philosophy and madness in early modern England / / Jeremy Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-91834-6

1-138-25273-5

1-315-24920-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 pages)

Collana

The history of medicine in context

Disciplina

616.8527009420903

Soggetti

Melancholy - Religious aspects - Christianity

Melancholy - England - History

Depression, Mental - Religious aspects - Christianity

Depression, Mental - England - History

Spiritual healing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.