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Proverb lore in "The anatomy of melancholy".
The problem of this thesis has been to study Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy for the purpose of finding as many as possible of the proverbs he uses in that famous work. Before entering upon the task proper, Apperson's English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, and Smith's Oxford Dictionary of …
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Robert Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy': 'Religious Melancholy,' a Critical Edition
… in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6511772.pdf: 18736510 bytes, checksum: 28a4d6ff9136fc7c99bf7ab4333a4b7c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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Infected vision in the works of Thomas Middleton
This thesis investigates the extent and range of the ocular vocabulary and themes employed by the playwright Thomas Middleton in context with early modern scientific, medical, and moral-philosophical writing on vision. More specifically, this thesis concerns Middleton’s revelation of the substance …
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The changing construction of the human being in medical discourse concerning melancholy
The latter half of the seventeenth century brought the scientific revolution and a new style and habit of thought. This thesis examines medical texts from the period 1620-1750in order to relate the changes wrought by the scientific revolution to changes in the ways physicians envisioned the nature …
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The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800
This dissertation develops a conceptual history of human anatomy, both as a discipline and as an epistemological model. Building on recent scholarship in the history of science, I argue that the basic organization of anatomical inquiry inspired a number of literary productions during the …
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The Translation and Reception of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in Renaissance Literary Culture, 1556-1674
In this study, I offer the first comprehensive treatment of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy (524 AD) in its early modern English translations. I situate the translations produced between 1556 and 1674 against trends in the European book trade, continental scholarship, and the Boethian …