Medicine, religion and the passions in early modern poetry and prose

This thesis investigates the use of medical terminology in the expression of religious selfhood in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Concentrating on the period between 1590 and 1640, I examine how the diffusion of medical learning and its key vocabularies into wider cultural conte...

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Main Author: Malone, Jonathan
Published: Queen's University Belfast 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707825