1. M. F. Wack, Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and its Commentaries (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), p. 40.
2. M. Ciavolella, La ‘Mallattia d’amore’ dall’Antiquità al Medievo (Rome: Bulzoni, 1976).
3. See M. F. Wack, ‘The Liber de heros morbo of Johannes Afflacius and Its Implications for Medieval Love Conventions’, Speculum, 62, 2 (1987) 324–44.
4. R. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, eds. N. K. Kiessling, T. C. Faulkner and R. L. Blair (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989–97).
5. See the groundbreaking article by J. L. Lowes, ‘The Loveres Maladye of Hereos,’ Modem Philology, 11:4 (1914) 491–546.