Fictions of Disease in Early Modern Engl

How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Th... » 

How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? This text illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, and others. «