| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture |
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Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
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| Contents |
"Mais braadou come carbron" : madness in Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Melancholic delusions in the margins of El Conde Lucanor -- Rabid melancholy in Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Fear without cause and rabies in Juan Manuel's Exemplo 47 -- Disturbances of the body and the soul : love melancholia in Cantigas de Santa Maria -- "Mano en Mexilla" : the lovesick poet in Librao de buen amor -- Diseass of the soul in Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Writing about melancholia to allay Acedia in Libro de buen amor -- Mystical lovesickenss in Cantiga 188 -- Conclusion : medical theory and the emergence of humanistic culture |
| Summary |
Prior to the reintroduction of classical medical treatises through Arab authors into European cultures, mental disorders and bodily diseases were primarily attributed to moral corruption, demonic influence and superstition. This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature and culture. Its overarching argument is that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iberian authors revalorized the interconnection between the body, the mind, and the soul in light of the evolving epistemology of medicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature
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Spanish literature
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192675354 |
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0192675354 |
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9780191949746 |
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0191949744 |
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9780192675347 |
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0192675346 |
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