The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume III : Text

This is the final text volume of Robert Burton's masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (to be followed by a separate Commentary), containing `The Third Partition', `The Table', and an Index of Persons. Burton's two grand digressions comprise `The Third Partition': an anatomizing of love melancholy, its kinds, causes, symptoms, and cures; and a survey of the aberrations from true religious commitment which are the cause of religious melancholy. To Burton the divine, no other manifestation of melancholy was as serious as this one, which concludes his great work.