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Title Emotions and health, 1200-1700 / edited by Elena Carrera
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 onlien resource.)
Series Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions.
Contents Emotions and psychological health in Aquinas / Nicholas E. Lombardo -- Tempted to kill : miraculous consolation for a mother after the death of her infant daughter / Nicole Archambeau -- Fear, fantasy and sleep in medieval medicine / William F. MacLehose -- Anger and the mind-body connection in medieval and early modern medicine / Elena Carrera -- Non-natural love : coitus, desire, and hygiene in medieval and early modern Spain / Michael R. Solomon -- A disease unto death : sadness in the time of Shakespeare / Erin Sullivan -- Medicine, psychology, and the melancholic subject in the Renaissance / Angus Gowaland -- Music and spirit in early modern thought / Penelope Gouk
Summary Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 examines theological and medical approaches to the 'passions' as alterations affecting both mind and body. It focuses on sorrow, fear and anger, on constructions of the melancholic subject, and on the effects of music on health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Emotions -- Health aspects -- History
Emotions -- Early works to 1850.
Emotions in literature.
Medicine and psychology -- History
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
Emotions
Emotions -- Health aspects
Emotions in literature
Medicine and psychology
Genre/Form Early works
History
Form Electronic book
Author Carrera, Elena, editor
LC no. 2013014421
ISBN 9789004252936
9004252932