Melancholy And The Care Of The Soul
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Melancholy And The Care Of The Soul
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Author : Jeremy Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Melancholy And The Care Of The Soul written by Jeremy Schmidt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century religious and moral philosophical publications, many of which have received only scant attention from modern scholars. Arguing that melancholy was considered by many to be as much a 'disease of the soul' as a condition originating in bodily disorder, Dr. Schmidt reveals how insights and techniques developed in the context of ancient philosophical and early Christian discussions of the good of the soul were applied by a variety of early modern authorities to the treatment of melancholy. The book also explores ways in which various diagnostic and therapeutic languages shaped the experience and expression of melancholy and situates the melancholic experience in a series of broader discourses, including the language of religious despair dominating English Calvinism, the late Renaissance concern with the government of the passions, and eighteenth-century debates surrounding politeness and material consumption. In addition, it explores how the shifting languages of early modern melancholy altered and enabled certain perceptions of gender. As a study in intellectual history, Melancholy and the Care of the Soul offers new insights into a wide variety of early modern texts, including literary representations and medical works, and critically engages with a broad range of current scholarship in addressing some of the central interpretive issues in the history of early modern medicine, psychiatry, religion and culture.
Melancholy And The Care Of The Soul
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Author : Jeremy Schmidt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Melancholy And The Care Of The Soul written by Jeremy Schmidt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Melancholy And The Care Of The Soul
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Author : Jeremy Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Melancholy And The Care Of The Soul written by Jeremy Schmidt and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
This book furthers our understanding of the issue of melancholy in early modern culture by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century religious and moral philosophical publications, many of which have receive
The Valley Way Of Soul
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Author : Matthew Del Nevo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Valley Way Of Soul written by Matthew Del Nevo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Emotions categories.
Spirituality is about fire and light, purity and will. Melancholy is more about mist and rain, the softness and intimacy of dusk. Melancholy is the middle way, the valley way, to authentic spirituality.
Robert Burton And The Transformative Powers Of Melancholy
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Author : Stephanie Shirilan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Robert Burton And The Transformative Powers Of Melancholy written by Stephanie Shirilan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unmediated repository of early modern views on melancholy, overlooking the fact that Burton is writing a cento - an ancient form of satire that quotes and misquotes authoritative texts in often subversive ways - and that his express intent in so doing is to offer his readers literary therapy for melancholy. This book explores the ways in which the Anatomy dispenses both direct physic and more systemic medicine by encouraging readers to think of melancholy as a privileged mental and spiritual acuity that requires cultivation and management rather than cure. Refuting the prevailing historiography of anxious early modern embodiment that cites Burton as a key witness, Shirilan submits that the Anatomy rejects contemporary Neostoic and Puritan approaches to melancholy. She reads Burton’s erraticism, opacity, and theatricality as modes of resistance against demands for constancy, transparency, and plainness in the popular literature of spiritual and moral hygiene of his day. She shows how Burton draws on rhetorical, theological, and philosophical traditions that privilege the transformative powers of the imagination in order to celebrate melancholic impressionability for its capacity to inspire and engender empathy, charity, and faith.
Psychosomatic Disorders In Seventeenth Century French Literature
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Author : Bernadette Höfer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Psychosomatic Disorders In Seventeenth Century French Literature written by Bernadette Höfer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bernadette Höfer's innovative and ambitious monograph argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence on the primacy of analytic thought over bodily function, has surprisingly little purchase in texts by prominent classical writers. In this study Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine represent interconnections of body and mind that influence behaviour, both voluntary and involuntary, and that thus disprove the classical notion of the mind as distinct from and superior to the body. The author's interdisciplinary perspective utilizes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations in the disciplines of psychosomatic medicine, neurobiology, and psychoanalysis, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers established a view of human existence that fully anticipates current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.
Melancholy Experience In Literature Of The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : A. Ingram
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-12
Melancholy Experience In Literature Of The Long Eighteenth Century written by A. Ingram and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.
Care Of The Soul
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Author : Thomas Moore
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 1994-01-26
Care Of The Soul written by Thomas Moore and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-26 with Psychology categories.
This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.
Bodies In Early Modern Religious Dissent
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Author : Elisabeth Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-31
Bodies In Early Modern Religious Dissent written by Elisabeth Fischer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-31 with History categories.
In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions, allowing scholars to explore the actions of smaller and more radical divergent groups. The focus on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices are the starting point for the contributors to this volume who depart from established national and denominational historiographies to probe the often-ambiguous phenomena occurring at the interstices of confessional boundaries. In this way, the authors examine a variety of religious living conditions, socio-cultural groups, and spiritual networks of early modern Europe and the Americas. The cases gathered here skillfully demonstrate the diverse ways in which regional and local differences affected the interpretation of bodily signs. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.
Dark Nights Of The Soul
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Author : Thomas Moore
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Dark Nights Of The Soul written by Thomas Moore and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A 'dark night of the soul' is not a psychological syndrome, but a quest for meaning during life's darkest hours: the loss of a loved one, the end of a relationship, ageing and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing dissatisfaction with life. Thomas Moore's extensive experience as a psychologist and theologian has taught him that the dark night is a challenge to restore ourselves and to become someone of substance, depth and soul. By using these trying times as an opportunity to reflect and delve into the soul's deepest needs, we can find a new understanding of life's meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul has its roots in a favourite chapter in Thomas Moore's million copy bestseller, Care of the Soul. In this beautifully-written and thought-provoking work he explores our contemporary anxieties and insecurities and shows how these metaphoric dark nights can become transforming rites of passage.