The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume VI: Commentary on the Third Partition, together with Biobibliographical and Topical Indexes

by Burton, Robert; Bamborough, J. B.; Dodsworth, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780198184867
• ISBN10: 0198184867
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This, the final volume of the Clarendon Press edition of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy , contains commentary on the Third Partition, in which Burton considers two especial forms of the disease, Love and Religious Melancholy. The volume includes an index which gives biographical and bibliographical information concerning the more than 1550 authorities cited in the Anatomy , most of whom are little known today. Also included are an index of the major topics discussed in the Anatomy , and a complete bibliography of all the works mentioned in the commentary.

Author Biography

J. B. Bamborough was the first Principal of Linacre College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	ix
Note to Readers	xi
COMMENTARY
PARTITION 3	1	(296)
Section 1	1	(25)
Member 1	1	(11)
Subsection 1	1	(7)
Subsection 2	8	(4)
Member 2	12	(8)
Subsection 1	12	(1)
Subsection 2	13	(3)
Subsection 3	16	(4)
Member 3	20	(6)
Subsection 1	20	(6)
Section 2	26	(147)
Member 1	26	(16)
Subsection 1	26	(6)
Subsection 2	32	(10)
Member 2	42	(52)
Subsection 1	42	(8)
Subsection 2	50	(16)
Subsection 3	66	(9)
Subsection 4	75	(14)
Subsection 5	89	(5)
Member 3	94	(32)
Subsection 1	94	(32)
Member 4	126	(4)
Subsection 1	126	(4)
Mmber 5	130	(43)
Subsection 1	130	(4)
Subsection 2	134	(6)
Subsection 3	140	(15)
Subsection 4	155	(2)
Subsection 5	157	(16)
Section 3	173	(36)
Member 1	173	(13)
Subsection 1	173	(4)
Subsection 2	177	(9)
Member 2	186	(5)
Subsection 1	186	(5)
Member 3	191	(2)
Subsection 1	191	(2)
Member 4	193	(16)
Subsection 1	193	(5)
Subsection 2	198	(11)
Section 4	209	(88)
Member 1	209	(52)
Subsection 1	209	(8)
Subsection 2	217	(19)
Subsection 3	236	(20)
Subsection 4	256	(2)
Subsection 5	258	(3)
Member 2	261	(36)
Subsection 1	261	(10)
Subsection 2	271	(2)
Subsection 3	273	(6)
Subsection 4	279	(2)
Subsection 5	281	(1)
Subsection 6	281	(16)
Biobibliography of Authors and Works Cited in the Anatomy	297	(142)
Bibliography of Works Cited in the Commentary	439	(14)
Index of Topics Discussed in the Anatomy	453