Abstract
This article examines the relationship between poison and melancholy, understood as a synthesis of the theory of humours and the theological notion of acedia elaborted by writers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. First, it studies the links between medical models of poison and black bile that allowed for their ideological convergence. It then traces the links between poisoning and illnesses of melancholy. Justified by the rarity of lethal poisonings in literary narratives and by the literary ethic of melancholy, the imperative of recovery is taken up at the end of our study.
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