These days we believe we are living in exceptional times. Have we ever had this much crime? Actually, yes, we have. Have politics ever been this polarized? Most definitely. Have we ever been this ...

“I am not an instructor in love, and what I say is merely reading”: So confesses Robert Burton (1577-1640) in the final partition of The Anatomy of Melancholy. A career Oxonian whose university ...

Based on "the greatest book ever written", The Anatomy of Melancholy provides the perfect cure to the ailment: laughter. Robert Burton's "self-help manual", written nearly 400 years ago, addresses the ...

Oxford scholar Robert Burton wrote his classic book as a means of dealing with his own melancholy Source: "The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton, 1621, Wikipedia, Public Domain The Oxford ...

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