Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as specially prone to
Melancholy, associated with black bile, was a particularly prominent Jacobean preoccupation in literary and medical discourse. Choler, blood and phlegm are the other humours…
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Out of the four humours of the body,
the Jacobeans thought of themselves
as specially prone to
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Melancholy, associated with black bile, was a particularly prominent Jacobean preoccupation in literary and medical discourse. Choler, blood and phlegm are the other humours but do not supply that characteristic self-image. The claim describes a cultural tendency, not every Jacobean person.
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