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Schmidt, Jeremy.
Melancholy and the Care of the Soul:
Publisher: Ashgate, Aldershot;
Date of Publication: 2007
Stock Code: 12668
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii 217. Publisher’s black cloth with silver title to spine in an unclipped lilac and black pictoria dust-jacket. Creasing to top edge of dust-jacket. Tidy ownership inscription to FPEP, previous ownership inscription whited out to FFEP. Schmidt explores the history of melancholy within the broad realms of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. In particular, he reveals how methods developed in early philosophical and early Christain discussions of the good soul were applied to the treatment of melancholy. It further explores how the shifting language of early modern melancholy reinforced gender hierarchies. £65.00