{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-melancholia-luis-f-l-pez-gonz-lez-9780192859228","title":"The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia","description":"This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature and culture. Its overarching argument is that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iberian authors revalorized the interconnection between the body, the mind, and the soul in light of the evolving epistemology of medicine. Prior to the reintroduction of classical medical treatises through Arab authors into European cultures, mental disorders and bodily diseases were primarily attributed to moral corruption, demonic influence, and superstition. The introduction of novel regimens of health as well as treatises on melancholia into academic institutions and into the cultural landscape provided the tools for newly minted authors to understand that psychosomatic illnesses stemmed from malfunctions of the body's biochemical composition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book demonstrates that the earliest books written in the Iberian vernaculars contain the seeds that effect the shift from a theocentric worldview to a humanistic one. The volume features close readings of multiple texts, including medical treatises and religious writings, and King Alfonso X's \u003cem\u003eCantigas de Santa Maria\u003c\/em\u003e, Juan Manuel's \u003cem\u003eConde Lucanor\u003c\/em\u003e, and Juan Ruiz's \u003cem\u003eLibro de buen amor.\u003c\/em\u003e Even though these texts differ in literary genre, rhetorical strategy, and even purpose, this study argues that they collectively employ humoral pathology and melancholic discourses as a means of underscoring the frailty and transience of human life by showing how somatic conditions sicken the body, mind, and soul unto death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luis F. Lez Gonz疝ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192859226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192859228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.40d","brand":"Luis F. Lez Gonz疝ez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069581488383,"sku":"9780192859228","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c451ea6-2afc-4d0f-8990-4f77ae032d7d.jpg?v=1685425451","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-aesthetics-of-melancholia-luis-f-l-pez-gonz-lez-9780192859228","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}