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The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history.
A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history, the volume is divided into three parts – medieval, early modern and modern – that emphasize the way people made sense of the world around them. Contributions cover such themes as material cultures of living, mobility and transport, cultural exchange and transfer, power and conflict, emotion and communication, and the history of the senses. The focus is on the Western world, but the notion of the West is a flexible one. In bringing together 36 authors from 15 countries, the book takes a wide geographical coverage, devoting continuous attention to global connections and the emerging trend of globalization. It builds a panorama of the transformation of Western identities, and the critical ramifications of that evolution from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, that offers the reader a wide-ranging illustration of the potentials of cultural history as a way of studying the past in a variety of times, spaces and aspects of human experience.
Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes, periods and places, The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field.
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
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