Reconciling matter and spirit: the Galenic brain in early modern literature
This project asserts that in works by Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne and Aemilia Lanyer, early modern knowledge of Galenic brain physiology is an essential part of Renaissance formulations of identity. As the accepted residence of the soul, the Galenic brain is a place where importa...
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University of Iowa
2009
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/286 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1471&context=etd |