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Title: | Magical approaches to the Passions in seventeenth-century England | ||||
Author: | Cummins, Alexander |
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0000 0004 5917 9500
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Awarding Body: | University of Bristol | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Bristol | ||||
Date of Award: | 2015 | ||||
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This dissertation studies how seventeenth-century English occult philosophy and magical
practice approached, apprehended, and attempted to affect the emotions. It analyses how
these early modern people used magic to map, manipulate, and manage emotionality:
how the classical elements and humoural theory were used to build up profiles of
temperament and emotional proclivities; how divination was used to diagnose particular
passional states, relationships, and processes; how ritual and sorcery was used to provoke
and galvanise these imbalances and their consequent effects on body, mind, soul, and
personal volition; and how magical objects, regimen, and regulatory practices were
deployed to constrain and ameliorate passional imbalances.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.683696 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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