Melancholy, Imagination, and Dreaming in Renaissance Learning

Gowland, Angus

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“…This malady, however, presented no fever and was usually accompanied by apparently groundless states of fear and sorrow (being the heart the physiological seat of those passions). 4 Galen introduced an exclusively medical view of lovesickness, which, according to him, was based on some symptoms 5 that could help physicians diagnose and treat this malady. Interestingly, most of these symptoms had appeared in literary accounts by Roman authors such as Valerius Maximus and Plutarch, so Galen was basically giving scientific value to the signs of the malady of love present in the poetic tradition.…”

Section: Overview: the Disease Of Love From The Classical To The Earl...mentioning

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Men's lovesickness in Iberian chivalric romances in English: Anthony Munday's Palmendos (1589) and Primaleon of Greece, Book 1 (1595)

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2023

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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This article explores the language of love disease in two Iberian romances translated by Anthony Munday, namely Palmendos (1589) and Primaleon of Greece (1595). Special attention is paid to the way the personality of male types develops through the narrative, describing it by means of the medical vocabulary of melancholy. A comparative analysis of Munday's translations and their Spanish and French sources (published in 1511 and 1550, respectively) is carried out, thus offering a wider view of the discourse on melancholy in different European countries and at different stages during the sixteenth century.

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Section: Overview: the Disease Of Love From The Classical To The Earl...mentioning

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Men's lovesickness in Iberian chivalric romances in English: Anthony Munday's Palmendos (1589) and Primaleon of Greece, Book 1 (1595)

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2023

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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“…It continued to present residual sense impressions (stored in the memory) to the imagination, which appeared in the form of dreams. 35…”

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TheNoctambuli: tales of sleepwalkers and secrets of the body in seventeenth-century England

Hunter

2020

The Seventeenth Century

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Seventeenth-century readers were fascinated by marvellous tales of people known as the noctambuli who rose up in their sleep, performed daily chores and attempted dangerous feats, such as clambering onto rooftops. On account of their uncanny nature, commentators noted that sleepers could be mistaken for spectres or those who had been bewitched. Depictions of the noctamubli were also influenced by the Malleus Maleficarum , which had argued that they were acting under the influence of demons and would fall if their Christian name was called. Medical texts explained this behaviour in terms of the escape of hot vapours within the body, the powers of the imaginative faculty, and the impairment of common sense during sleep. While this explanation was widely accepted, in the 1650s it was challenged by alternative views from esoteric writings, which conceptualised the movements of sleepers in terms of mystical powers within the body.

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Fretz

2020

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

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Melancholy, Imagination, and Dreaming in Renaissance Learning

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Men's lovesickness in Iberian chivalric romances in English: Anthony Munday's Palmendos (1589) and Primaleon of Greece, Book 1 (1595)

Men's lovesickness in Iberian chivalric romances in English: Anthony Munday's Palmendos (1589) and Primaleon of Greece, Book 1 (1595)

TheNoctambuli: tales of sleepwalkers and secrets of the body in seventeenth-century England

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