Ressenya de The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia
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Title: | Ressenya de The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia |
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Other Titles: | Book Review of The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia |
Authors: | Rivero-Navarro, Sergi |
Keywords: | Malenconia | Malalties | Medieval | Teoria dels humors | Literatura castellana | Humanisme | Melancholia | Diseases | Humoral theory | Castilian literature | Humanism |
Issue Date: | 2024 |
Publisher: | Universitat d'Alacant. Departament de Filologia Catalana |
Citation: | Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos. 2024, 13: 204-208. https://doi.org/10.14198/rcim.2024.13.11 |
Abstract: | El llibre The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia, del professor Luis F. López González i que acaba de publicar Oxford University Press és un estudi acurat que ressegueix la influència de la teoria dels humors i, en particular, de la malatia de la malenconia als textos de tres autors canònics de la literatura medieval castellana: Alfonso X, Don Juan Manuel i Juan Ruiz. La tesi principal d’aquesta obra, que l’autor argumenta de forma convincent, és que la incorporació d’explicacions naturals a l’origen de les malalties dins dels textos dels segles XIII i XIV estudiats en el llibre, contribuí al desplaçament gradual del marc mental teocràtic de la societat medieval cap un altre de més humanista i científic que predominarà durant el Renaixement. | Dr. López González’ recent book, The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia, published by Oxford University Press, is a thorough examination of the influence of humoral theory and, more specifically, of melancholy on the texts of three canonical authors of the Medieval Castilian Literature: Alfonso X, Don Juan Manuel, and Juan Ruiz. López González’ main thesis, which is convincingly argued, is that the incorporation of natural explanations for the origin of illness in the literary texts of the three 13th and 14th centuries authors, contributed to the gradual replacement of a theocratic mental framework with a more humanistic and scientific one, a framework that characterizes the Renaissance. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/139517 |
ISSN: | 2254-7444 |
DOI: | 10.14198/rcim.2024.13.11 |
Language: | cat |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/review |
Rights: | © 2024 Sergi Rivero-Navarro. Este trabajo está sujeto a una licencia de Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional de Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14198/rcim.2024.13.11 |
Appears in Collections: | Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos - 2024, N. 13 |
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