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Record Nr.

UNINA9910424626903321

Autore

Gubbini Gaia

Titolo

Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages : Literature, Philosophy, Medicine / / Gaia Gubbini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-061593-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 284 p.)

Classificazione

EC 5127

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- La notion philosophico-médicale de spiritus dans l'Avicenne latin -- Skin, the inner senses, and the readers' inner life in the Aviarium of Hugh of Fouilloy and related texts -- Les cinq sens, le corps et l'esprit -- Language, Soul, & Body (Parts) -- Corps et esprit -- The Medical, the Philosophical, and the Theological Discourses on the Senses -- La poésie mystique -- Animae sequuntur corpora -- Amour, imagination et poésie dans l'oeuvre médicale de Gentile da Foligno -- Petrarch and the Senses -- Melancholy and Creativity in Petrarch -- Bodies without Minds, Minds without Bodies -- Le « contact virtuel » entre un esprit et un corps et l'action à distance -- Retorica delle passioni

Sommario/riassunto

A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach - combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self.