The smoke of the soul: medicine, physiology and religion in Early Modern England
"What was the soul? For hundreds of years Christians agreed that it was the essential, immortal core of each individual believer, and of the Christian faith in general. Despite this, there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it could be joined to the material body. By fo...
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| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
| Verificare la disponibilità: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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| In: | Anno: 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1. publ. |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Inglese
/ Letteratura
/ Anima (Motivo)
/ Corpo (Motivo)
/ Storia 1500-1700
B England / Religione / Problematica del corpo e dell'anima / Storia 1500-1700 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Religion and literature (England)
History 16th century
B Literature and medicine (England) History 16th century B Human body in literature B Literature and medicine (England) History 17th century B English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism B Soul in literature B Religion and literature (England) History 17th century |
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| Riepilogo: | "What was the soul? For hundreds of years Christians agreed that it was the essential, immortal core of each individual believer, and of the Christian faith in general. Despite this, there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it could be joined to the material body. By focusing on the spirits of blood which were alleged to join body and soul, this book explores the peculiar problems, anxieties, and excitement generated by a zone where spirit met matter, and the earthly the divine. It shows how pious but rigorous Christians such as John Donne and Walter Raleigh expressed their dissatisfaction with existing theories of body-soul integration; how prone the soul was to being materialised; and how an increasingly scientific medical culture hunted the material aspects of the soul out of the human body"-- |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Descrizione fisica: | XI, 389 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-137-34559-2 |
