Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross

Takes as its starting point the group of concepts centred on "good" madness - and, consequently, on laughter and comedy - which were discovered and developed in the Renaissance as objects of historical study and which led to a subtle shift of emphasis in many domains such as theology, literature, law and medicine.

Laughter at the Foot of the Cross

Screech, M. A.

History

Penguin Uk

Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the Essays

Although Montaigne achieved a balance that made him a model humanist thinker, his temperament was sanguine-melancholic. Screech reassesses the Essais, showing how Montaigne steered his melancholy into appropriate psychological channels, seeking a balance of body and soul as a means to avoid madness.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

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Erasmus: Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly (Peregrine Books)

Religion & Spirituality

Puffin

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Takes as its starting point the group of concepts centred on "good" madness (and, later, on laughter and comedy) which were discovered and developed in the Renaissance as objects of historical study. They led to a subtle shift of emphasis in many domains - theology, literature, law and medicine.

Laughter at the Foot/the Cross

Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly

History & Criticism

Duckbacks

Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the " Essays "

Essays & Correspondence

Duckworth

Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced temperament, sanguine and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. When he started his Essays, Montaigne was upset by an attack of melancholy humor: He became temperamental and unbalanced. Writing about himself restored the balance but broke an age-old taboo―happily so, for he discovered profound truths about himself and about our human condition. His charm and humor have made his writings widely enjoyed and admired.

Montaigne & Melancholy: The Wisdom of the Essays

Fumaroli, Marc

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

1979 Copyright &amp; Published by Cornell Univ. Press - by M. A. Screech - 494 pages.

Rabelais

Cornell Univ Pr

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