The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World

General Introduction

Alessandro Arcangeli, Jörg Rogge and Hannu Salmi

Part 1: Shaping Western Identities, 1250–1500

Introduction

Jörg Rogge

1. Culture of Politics in the Middle Ages: Rituals to create and confirm political order

Hermann Kamp

2. Cultures of Conflict

Jackson W. Armstrong

3. Material Cultures of Living: Spatiality and Everyday Life

Jan Hirschbiegel and Gabriel Zeilinger

4. Travel, Mobility, and Culture in Europe

Marianne O’Doherty

5. Cultural Encounters and Transfer

Johannes Pahlitzsch

6. Practices of Communication: Literacy, Gestures and Words

Franz-Josef Arlinghaus

7. Making Sense of One’s Life and the World

Marek Tamm

8. Conceiving of Medieval Identities

Christina Lutter

9.  Body, Sexuality and Health

Dominik Schuh

10. Contextualizing Medieval Emotions

Esther Cohen

Part 2: Europe meets the Globe: Western Identities in Question, 1500–1750

Introduction

Alessandro Arcangeli

11. God’s Green Garden: Interactions between humans and the environment

Linnéa Rowlatt

12. Material Cultures of Living: European Attitudes to Novelties

Raffaella Sarti

13. Reverence, Shame and Guilt in Early Modern European Cultures

Jonas Liliequist

14. Making Sense of the World: The Creation and Transfer of Knowledge

Hjalmar Fors

15. The Self: Representations and Practices

James R. Farr

16. The Experience of Time

Brendan Dooley

17. Written Communication: Publication, Textual Materiality and Appropriations

Antonio Castillo Gómez

18. Mobility, Global Interaction and Cultural Transfers in the Age of Cultural Encounters

Giuseppe Marcocci

19. Faces of Power and Conflict

Tomás A. Mantecón

Part 3: The Western World and the Global Challenge, from 1750 to the present

Introduction

Hannu Salmi

20. Enlightenment, Revolution and Melancholy

Asko Nivala

21. Individualism and Emotion in Modern Western Culture

Peter N. Stearns

22. Health and Illness, the Self and the Body

Willemijn Ruberg

23. Family, Home and Variations in Domestic Life

Kirsi Tuohela

24. Natural Disasters and Modernity

Kyrre Kverndokk

25. Cultures of Mobility

Dhan Zunino Singh

26. The Cultural Life of the Senses in Modernity

Constance Classen and David Howes

27. Media and Mediatization

Pelle Snickars

28. Indigenous and Postcolonial Cultures

Mita Banerjee

29. Violence and Trauma: Experiencing the Two World Wars

Ville Kivimäki

30. The Cold War Cultures and Beyond

Steven Conn

31. The Culture of Commerce and the Global Economy

Jared Poley

32. Epilogue: Cultural History in Retrospect

Hannu Salmi

Biography

Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona, Italy, the author of a reference book on cultural history and its methods and a scholar in Renaissance studies. He chaired the International Society for Cultural History from 2013 to 2017.

Jörg Rogge is Academic Director and Adjunct Professor of History, Middle Ages, at the University of Mainz, Germany, and specialized in the history of urban and noble societies. He is the current Chair of the International Society for Cultural History.

Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland, Academy Professor for the years 2017–2021 and a historian of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was the first chair of the International Society for Cultural History from 2008 to 2013.

'This is a remarkable volume covering a vast range of themes, periods and locations. It will be essential for advancing scholarship and supporting the next generation of academic work in the field.'

Professor Hugo Frey, Professor of Visual and Cultural History, University of Chichester, UK