ABSTRACT
Thomas Wright was an English Catholic priest and member of the Jesuit Order who was banished from England in 1585. He is best known for writing polemical anti-Protestant tracts from his place of his exile on the continent but also for his work The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1601, revised and reprinted in 1604). Wright examined affect as part of the relationship between the human body and the human soul with the aim of helping his readers acquire a self-knowledge of the role of the “passions” that will help them restrain “inordinate” passions and achieve happiness.
