The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy : Robert Burton in Context

Acknowledgements ix Conventions xi Introduction 1(32) The 'Letter to Damagetes' 8(25) 1 The medical theory of melancholy 33(65) The nature and status of medical inquiry 35(5) Medicine and humanist philosophy 40(3) Body and soul 43(7) Neo-Galenic occultism 50(4) The Anatomy and the medical theory of melancholy 54(2) Division and definition 56(16) Causes, symptoms, prognostics, cures 72(13) Medical occultism in the Anatomy 85(13) 2 Dissecting medical learning 98(41) The humanist critique of medicine 100(22) Medicine and Christian humanism 122(13) Knowledge and its uses 135(4) 3 Melancholy and divinity 139(66) England and Europe 141(2) English theology and ecclesiastical politics 143(8) University theological dispute 151(3) "f he intellectual complexion of Laudianism 154(4) Religious melancholy 158(3) Orthodoxy and controversy 161(5) War and religion 166(3) The English Church 169(5) Predestination and despair 174(18) Humanism and the early Stuart Church 192(11) Spiritual politics in the Anatomy 203(2) 4 The melancholy body politic 205(41) Psychology and politics 206(6) Jacobean theories of monarchy 212(7) Court and counsel 219(4) Dissecting the body politic 223(17) The politics of melancholy 240(6) 5 Utopia, consolation, and withdrawal 246(49) The philosopher and the commonwealth 253(8) Melancholy and utopia 261(5) On misery and consolation 266(9) Satire and philosophy 275(12) Democritus Junior 287(8) Conclusion: Robert Burton's melancholy 295(7) Bibliographies 302(27) Index 329