Luis F López González

The Aesthetics of Melancholia

Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the intersection between medicine and medieval Iberian literature with a particular emphasis on melancholy and its links to depression and lovesickness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780192859228
• ISBN-10: 0192859226
• Artikelnr.: 66119477

Autorenporträt

Professor López González completed his PhD at Harvard University in 2017, writing a dissertation on suicide and its attending phenomenology in medieval Iberian culture and literature. He has published over twenty scholarly articles in national and international peer-review journals, including in MLN, Hispanic Review, Modern Language Review, and others. He is writing a book about medicine, society, and womanhood in medieval Iberia, which focuses on the effects of an oppressive patriarchal society on women's mental health.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Melancholia and its Evolution in Thirteenth Century
Iberia
* Part I: Melancholia and Madness
* 1: "Mais braadou come cabron": Madness in Cantigas de Santa Maria
* 2: Melancholic Delusions in the Margins of El Conde Lucanor
* Part II: Rabies or Hydrophobia
* 3: Rabid Melancholy in Cantigas de Santa Maria
* 4: Fear without Cause and Rabies in Juan Manuel's Exemplo 47
* Part III: Lovesickness or Amor Hereos
* 5: Disturbances of the Body and the Soul: Love Melancholia in
Cantigas de Santa Maria
* 6: "Mano en Mexilla": The Lovesick Poet in Libro de buen amor
* Part IV: Acedia and Mystical Lovesickness
* 7: Diseases of the Soul in Cantigas de Santa Maria
* 8: Writing about Melancholia to Allay Acedia in Libro de buen amor
* 9: Mystical Lovesickness in Cantiga 188
* Conclusion