Anglican scholarly encyclopedic occult medicine
Robert Burton
1577 – 1640
Robert Burton was an Oxford scholar and Anglican clergyman whose monumental The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) surveyed the causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy with encyclopedic breadth, drawing on astrology, demonology, magic, and classical philosophy alongside medicine. Revised through five editions during his lifetime, it remains one of the richest repositories of early modern esoteric and psychological thought.
astrologyDreams and unconscious processesRenaissance HumanismRenaissance OccultismNatural PhilosophyRenaissance Humanism / Early Modern Psychologyritual documentationMoral philosophy and ethicsfolk belief documentationdream interpretation
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