1st Edition

The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe 1100-1700

Edited By Susan Broomhall, Andrew Lynch Copyright 2020
486 Pages
by Routledge

486 Pages
by Routledge

486 Pages
by Routledge

The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700 presents the state of the field of pre-modern emotions during this period, placing particular emphasis on theoretical and methodological aspects of current research. This book serves as a reference to existing research practices in emotions history and advances studies in the field across a range of scholarly approaches. It brings... Read more

PART 1. TIME AND SPACE

    1. Barbara H. Rosenwein. Periodization? An Answer from the History of Emotions
    2. Matthew Champion. Emotions, Time and Narrative: A Liturgical Frame
    3. Helen M. Hickey and Stephanie Trigg. Landscape, Climate and Feeling
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      PART 2. SPIRIT AND INTELLECT

    5. Clare Monagle. Emotions and the Self: Between Aquinas and Descartes
    6. Paul Megna. Dreadful Devotion
    7. Kirk Essary. Rhetorical Theology and the History of Emotions
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      PART 3. BODIES

    9. Rebecca McNamara. The Emotional Body in Religious Belief and Practice
    10. Michael D. Barbezat. The Corporeal Orientation: Understanding Deviance Through the Object(s) of Love.
    11. Umberto Grassi. Emotions and Sexuality: Regulation and Homoerotic Transgression
    12. Lisa Beaven. Sensing and Feeling
    13. Javier Moscoso. Learning and Teaching Pain
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      PART 4. COMMUNITIES

    15. Katie Barclay. The Emotions of Household Economics
    16. Gordon D. Raeburn. Death and Dying
    17. Una McIlvenna. Emotions in Public: Crowds, Mobs and Communities
    18. Charles Zika. Emotions, Exclusion and Witchcraft Imagery
    19. Carolyn James and Jessica O’Leary. Letter-Writing and Emotions
    20. Jette Linaa. The Materiality of Emotions: An Archaeological Point of View
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      PART 5. ENCOUNTERS AND EXCURSIONS

    22. Susan Broomhall. Diplomatic Emotions: International Relations as Gendered Acts of Power
    23. Giovanni Tarantino. Feeling White: Beneath and Beyond
    24. Robin Macdonald. Christian Missionaries and Global Encounters
    25. Nicholas Dean Brodie. Maritime Encounters and Global History
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      PART 6. CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS

    27. Andrew Lynch and Georgina Pitt. Emotional Literatures of War
    28. Javier E. Díaz-Vera, The Changing Pursuit of Happiness
    29. Carol Williams. Music
    30. Peter Holbrook. Literature: The Solicitation of the Passions
    31. Kathryn Prince. The Theatre of Wonder
    32. Laurinda S. Dixon. Mind Over Madness: The Development of the Topos of the Melancholic Artist

Biography

Andrew Lynch is Emeritus Professor of English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, and a former Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Susan Broomhall is Professor of History at The University of Western Australia. She currently holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, and is Editor of Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.