Melancholy and Culture
Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain
Author(s) Roger Bartra
Language: English
Genre(s): Modern Languages
Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies
- June 2008 · 288 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9780708320105
About The Book
Focuses on the subject of 'melancholy madness' in Spain. This work demonstrates that the subject of melancholy in the Spanish Golden Age is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to understand the appearance of sadness and malcontent in Europe at the dawn of modernity.
Endorsements
'One can only welcome such a thoughtful and scholarly contribution within the context of sixteenth-century Spain, a scintillating epoch largely off the radar of most medical historians, and appreciate the inspired idea of the Iberian and Latin Studies editors to translate this important book into English.' Edward Shorter, History of Psychiatry 20 (4)