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Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy . Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burton attended two grammar schools and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1593, age 15.
Robert Burton (born February 8, 1577, Lindley, Leicestershire, England—died January 25, 1640, Oxford) was an English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman whose Anatomy of Melancholy is a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time.
Oct 5, 2010 · An article that explores the life and work of Robert Burton, a 17th-century Oxford scholar who wrote a vast and erudite book on melancholy. The article examines the medical, literary and historical sources of Burton's Anatomy, and its therapeutic and self-reflective aims.
In 1621, Robert Burton (1577-1640) wrote and published the world’s first psychiatric encyclopaedia, an exhaustive study which is the result of his life’s work. The Anatomy of Melancholy quickly became one of the most popular books of the seventeenth-century and is still an influential work in the study of mental illness and depression.
This article examines Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. It begins with a brief biographical sketch of Burton. It then outlines the principal interpretative problems posed by the Anatomy to modern readers, offering some suggestions about how these can be approached and possibly resolved. Next, the chapter discusses some of the key features ...
Apr 30, 2001 · One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its...
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century.
