[BOOK][B] Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading'The Anatomy of Melancholy'

MA Lund - 2010 - books.google.com
The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, is one of the greatest works of early
modern English prose writing, yet it has received little substantial literary criticism in recent …

Richard's back: death, scoliosis and myth making

MA Lund - Medical humanities, 2015 - mh.bmj.com
The body of a mediaeval monarch was always under scrutiny, and Richard III's was no
exception. In death, however, his body became subject to new forms of examination and …

[BOOK][B] A User's Guide to Melancholy

MA Lund - 2021 - books.google.com
" The story Burton tells of the sixteenth-century Jewish Frenchman not only shows how
strong the imagination can be, but also plays out an intriguing philosophical puzzle. A man …

Robert Burton the Spiritual Physician: Religion and Medicine in The Anatomy of Melancholy

MA Lund - The Review of English Studies, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621–51), Robert Burton describes melancholy as
a disease of the soul, stating that he will address his subject-matter both as a divine and a …

Reading and the Cure of Despair in" The Anatomy of Melancholy"

MA Lund - Studies in Philology, 2008 - JSTOR
IN the second edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy (1624; first edition 1621), Robert Burton
radically alters his work's ending. He expands its final subsection on the cure of religious …

Donne's convalescence

M Ann Lund - Renaissance Studies, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This article argues that the period of Donne's convalescence immediately after his near‐fatal
illness in late 1623 is crucial for an understanding of the text it spawned, his Devotions Upon …

Robert Burton, perfect happiness and the visio dei

MA Lund - The Renaissance of emotion, 2015 - manchesterhive.com
A pound of sorrow is familiarly mixt with a dram of content, little or no joy, little comfort, but
every where danger, contention, anxiety, in all places; goe where thou wilt, and thou shalt …

Experiencing Pain in John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

MA Lund - The Sense of Suffering: Constructions of Physical Pain …, 2009 - brill.com
In late 1623 the inveterate gossip and letter-writer John Chamberlain informed a
correspondent that London was being swept by 'a contagious spotted or purple fever that …

Without a Cause: Fear in the Anatomy of Melancholy

MA Lund - Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract According to Robert Burton, melancholy is defined by the accompanying emotions
of 'feare, and sadnesse'. Yet commentators on renaissance melancholy have tended to …

The Christian Physician: Thomas Browne And The Role Of Religion In Medical Practice

MA Lund - “A man very well studyed”: New Contexts for Thomas …, 2008 - brill.com
The title of Thomas Browne's first work, Religio Medici (first published 1642), plays on what
he calls the 'generall scandall of my profession', 1 according to the medieval proverb that ubi …