Insanity, hysteria and melancholy in seventeenth-century English continuo song
Medicine was an important aspect of ancient Greek philosophy, which also associated sanity with reason. The Platonic and Aristotelian threads initiated then were intertwined in the Middle Ages. Medieval Scholasticism equated insanity with the gift of prophecy and melancholy with heroism. As the s...
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15182 |