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- Much recent work suggests that humoral theory should not be regarded as a mere medical curiosity, since it is intimately bound up with early modern ideas of selfhood, not merely as a metaphor, but as a literal understanding of the processes at work.
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In humoral theory, individual diseases did not exist in the way that we understand them today. Diseases were not seen as forces or entities separate from the body, but instead were understood as states of bodily imbalance.
While most often associated with Galen, the doctrine of humors received some development by Galen’s teacher and predecessor Hippocrates. This theory held that four humors or bodily fluids held the secret to health. These humors were, blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
Sep 13, 2018 · To address these questions, this chapter suggests that humoral theory is intimately bound up with early modern ideas of selfhood, not merely as a metaphor, but as a literal understanding of the processes at work in cognition, emotion, and selfhood.
Jul 14, 2023 · Adopting George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), the second part develops the rhetoric scheme of humour. Here the term rhetoric in specific analyses how humour influences the audience.
Summary.—The theory of humors, which was the prevalent theory of afect in Shakespeare’s day, was used to explain both states (moods, emotions) and traits (personalities). This article reports humoral scores appropriate to the major char-acters of Shakespeare’s comedies.
Jun 7, 2016 · Abstract. Renaissance humoral theory held that a human body contains four principal fluids, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, each of which corresponds to the one of the four elements of earth, fire, air, and water. This system permeated the metaphorical language of Renaissance psychology , and also governed medical practice ...
