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

• Autore: Schmidt Jeremy <1977-, >
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.8527009420903
• Soggetto topico: Melancholy - Religious aspects - Christianity; Melancholy - England - History; Depression, Mental - Religious aspects - Christianity; Depression, Mental - England - History; Spiritual healing
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Melancholy and the care of the soul
• ISBN: 1-351-91834-6; 1-138-25273-5; 1-315-24920-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154611903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of medicine in context.