Stories
- In pictures
A short history of lovesickness
Are you ill or are you simply in love? It can be hard to tell. No wonder lovesickness was for centuries regarded as a bona fide disease.
- Article
Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
- Article
Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
Catalogue
- Books
Lovesickness and gender in early modern English literature / Lesel Dawson.
Dawson, Lesel.Date: 2008- Books
Lovesickness in the Middle Ages : the Viaticum and its commentaries / Mary Frances Wack.
Wack, Mary Frances, 1954-Date: [1990], ©1990- Student dissertations
Love-sickness in tbe Seventeenth Century / Sally-Anne Phillips.
Phillips, Sally-Anne.Date: 1998- Books
Febris erotica : lovesickness in the Russian literary imagination / Valeria Sobol.
Sobol, Valeria.Date: [2009], ©2009- Pictures
- Online
A doctor diagnosing an ill young man as suffering from lovesickness. Wood engraving by A. Hopkins, 1898.
Hopkins, Arthur, fl 1898.Date: 1898Reference: 14317i