Emotions and health, 1200-1700 / edited by Elena Carrera.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

xii, 247 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Emotions and psychological health in Aquinas / Nicholas E. Lombardo -- Tempted to kill : miraculous consolation for a mother after the death of her infant daughter / Nicole Archambeau -- Fear, fantasy and sleep in medieval medicine / William F. MacLehose -- Anger and the mind-body connection in medieval and early modern medicine / Elena Carrera -- Non-natural love : coitus, desire, and hygiene in medieval and early modern Spain / Michael R. Solomon -- A disease unto death : sadness in the time of Shakespeare / Erin Sullivan -- Medicine, psychology, and the melancholic subject in the Renaissance / Angus Gowland -- Music and spirit in early modern thought / Penelope Gouk.