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This document summarizes an academic article that examines understandings of mental disturbance in 16th- and 17th-century Spain from a medical perspective. It discusses how Spanish humanist physicians renewed interest in classical texts on melancholy and madness. While some modern scholars see Renaissance theories as purely metaphorical, the article argues they were also intended literally. It analyzes works by Bartholomeus Anglicus, Bernard of Gordon, and Spanish physicians like Pedro Mercado and Alonso de
- Author
- Henry Lopes
- Language
- EN