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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:683696 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Cummins, Alexander |
| Publisher | University of Bristol |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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