The View from Minerva's Tower: Learning and Imagination in The Anatomy of MelancholyUniversity of Toronto Press, 1989 - 250 pages |
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... theory . In his Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus ( 1558 , book 19 ) , Olaus Magnus enlarged upon a notion first presented by the poet Claudian , destined to be widely believed for centuries : ' Although the writers of many natural ...
... theory . In his Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus ( 1558 , book 19 ) , Olaus Magnus enlarged upon a notion first presented by the poet Claudian , destined to be widely believed for centuries : ' Although the writers of many natural ...
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... theory . 12 Yet even in his rejection of the theory of infinite worlds Burton is not consistent . He loves to speculate fantastically : ' It may be those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time , that fell from heaven ...
... theory . 12 Yet even in his rejection of the theory of infinite worlds Burton is not consistent . He loves to speculate fantastically : ' It may be those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time , that fell from heaven ...
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... theories of madness are a feature of modern as well as medieval psychiatric theory . Unlike his medieval predecessors Burton denies that disease can ever be anything but evil . For him it is not a way of testing the saint or an ...
... theories of madness are a feature of modern as well as medieval psychiatric theory . Unlike his medieval predecessors Burton denies that disease can ever be anything but evil . For him it is not a way of testing the saint or an ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 3 |
The Melancholy Physician Considers | 16 |
Geography | 31 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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