The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of...
14 KB (1,516 words) - 19:11, 3 April 2024
Robert Burton (category History of mental health in the United Kingdom)
and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy. Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry...
78 KB (9,727 words) - 02:32, 28 June 2024
Hostius Quadra (category Year of birth unknown)
16. "BOOK I, tr. John Clarke". R. Burton (2023 [1651]), The Anatomy of Melancholy, Penguin, pp. 713-714. R. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 715....
4 KB (463 words) - 16:09, 22 August 2024
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a live album by the British gothic metal band Paradise Lost. It was recorded on 12 April 2007 at the Koko (London). The album...
3 KB (237 words) - 14:14, 21 July 2023
Melancholia (redirect from Cult of melancholia)
hallucinations and delusions. Melancholy was regarded as one of the four temperaments matching the four humours. Until the 18th century, doctors and other...
50 KB (5,125 words) - 16:53, 27 August 2024
Glass delusion (redirect from The Glass Delusion)
of melancholy. Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) touches on the subject in the commentary as one of many related manifestations of the...
9 KB (1,101 words) - 11:24, 16 June 2024
Present and Future. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 9781847558121. Burton, Robert (1857) [1621]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. London: William Tegg. p. 324...
2 KB (183 words) - 07:20, 12 December 2023
from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, Francis Bacon's Of Death, Rabelais and many more, and rearranged them to serve the new meaning intended...
41 KB (4,848 words) - 14:04, 20 August 2024
subjection." (Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published 1621) "The pontifex maximus Scævola thought it expedient that the people should be deceived...
3 KB (355 words) - 02:10, 14 March 2024
in his The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) to describe his ostensibly plain writing style, claiming, "I call a spade a spade" (1.17.23).: 2 n.3 The phrase...
13 KB (1,391 words) - 07:27, 29 July 2024
Crepitus (mythology) (section Sources of the legend)
passages exist in The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Tertullian's Ad Nationes. Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, mentions a god...
11 KB (1,591 words) - 13:30, 9 July 2024
Menippean satire (redirect from Anatomy (genre))
replacement the term anatomy (taken from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy). In his theory of prose fiction it occupies the fourth place with the novel, romance...
22 KB (2,807 words) - 14:43, 16 July 2024
Schadenfreude (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
[etc.], of which elsewhere. — The Anatomy of Melancholy The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer mentioned schadenfreude as the most evil sin of human feeling...
35 KB (3,804 words) - 12:42, 20 August 2024
Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy and Bishop Francis Godwin's fantastical The Man in the Moone. Two approaches have dominated explanations of the story of the...
40 KB (5,297 words) - 20:56, 21 June 2024
Cuckold (section History of the term)
to in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, and others. In Islamic cultures, the related term dayouth...
17 KB (1,696 words) - 11:39, 19 August 2024
Neurophysiology (redirect from History of neurophysiology)
to a sea horse. In 1621, Robert Burton published The Anatomy of Melancholy, which looked at the loss of important characters in one's life as leading to...
16 KB (1,839 words) - 13:22, 8 August 2024
wrote: "... many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills." Robert Burton, in 1621, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, stated: "It is an old saying, 'A blow with...
17 KB (2,043 words) - 04:53, 20 August 2024
age the Earth was as flat as a stove lid and that it floated on water like half of a sliced orange." Robert Burton, in his The Anatomy of Melancholy wrote:...
32 KB (4,047 words) - 19:46, 14 August 2024
The amount of liquid in every onion piece tells how much rain/snow there will be in the respective month. Burton, Robert. "The Anatomy of Melancholy"...
4 KB (527 words) - 19:13, 10 June 2024
Unrequited love (redirect from List of cultural references to unrequited love)
trans, The Sanka Shu (Tokyo 1971) p. 236-7 G Maciocia, The Psyche in Chinese Medicine (2009) p. 136 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York...
9 KB (1,062 words) - 15:18, 20 July 2024
key to the sources Burton used in The Anatomy of Melancholy. He collected books relating to Burton, and after Sarah died, he gave the core of his collection...
13 KB (1,662 words) - 07:23, 28 July 2024
Music (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4214-4345-4. cf. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert...
137 KB (15,970 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2024
Paradise Lost discography (redirect from At the Mill)
albumlista". "Albumit 21/2020". IFPI Finland. Retrieved 24 May 2020. "The Anatomy of Melancholy (Live) by Paradise Lost". iTunes. 23 May 2008. "Draconian Times...
26 KB (730 words) - 12:11, 13 August 2024
in the second edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy (1624), quotes Stella thus: I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant...
20 KB (2,407 words) - 22:34, 13 August 2024
twenty-three letters," is from Robert Burton's 1621 The Anatomy of Melancholy. In mainstream theories of natural language syntax, every syntactically valid...
17 KB (2,251 words) - 19:22, 26 August 2024
linked to isolation. The seminal scholarly work of the 17th century was English scholar Robert Burton's book, The Anatomy of Melancholy, drawing on numerous...
26 KB (2,659 words) - 22:16, 15 August 2024
was an English writer and fellow of Oxford University, best known for his encyclopedic book The Anatomy of Melancholy. Robert Burton may also refer to:...
1 KB (205 words) - 18:26, 25 August 2024
Nicolas K.; Faulkner, Thomas C.; Blair, Rhonda L. (eds.). The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part 3, Sect. 4. Memb. 1. Subs. 2.. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press...
27 KB (377 words) - 14:18, 11 July 2024
Doome according to the reader's capacity." The early modern scholar Robert Burton deploys the expression in his The Anatomy of Melancholy: Our writings are...
4 KB (426 words) - 15:26, 8 July 2024
Simon Grahame (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature)
the latter of which is believed to have suggested to Robert Burton his The Anatomy of Melancholy. He became an austere Franciscan. A sonnet of Grahame's...
995 bytes (127 words) - 07:53, 17 December 2023