RT Book
T1 The smoke of the soul: medicine, physiology and religion in Early Modern England
A1 Sugg, Richard 1969-
LA English
PP Basingstoke u.a.
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2013
ED 1. publ.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/769243940
AB "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"--
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PR428.B63
SN 9781137345592
K1 English literature : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism
K1 Human body in literature
K1 Soul in literature
K1 Literature and medicine : England : History : 16th century
K1 Religion and literature : England : History : 16th century
K1 Literature and medicine : England : History : 17th century
K1 Religion and literature : England : History : 17th century