The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe

<p><em>The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700</em> presents the state of the field of pre-modern emotions during this period, placing particular emphasis on theoretical and methodological aspects of current research.</p><p>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 together the work of recognized experts and new voices, and represents a wide range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives from different schools of research practice, including art history, literature and culture, philosophy, linguistics, archaeology and music. Throughout the book, central and recurrent themes in emotional culture within medieval and early modern Europe are highlighted from different angles, and each chapter pays specialist attention to illustrative examples showing theory and method in application.</p><p>Exploring topics such as love, war, sex and sexuality, death, time, the body and the family in the context of emotional culture, <i>The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700 </i>reflects the sharp rise in scholarship relating to the history of emotions in recent years and is an essential resource for students and researchers of the history of pre-modern emotions. </p> <p>Emotions in Europe, 1100–1700: conversations across methodologies 1</p><p>ANDREW LYNCH AND SUSAN BROOMHALL</p><p>PART 1: Time and space</p><p>1 Periodization? An answer from the history of emotion</p><p>BARBARA H. ROSENWEIN </p><p>2 Emotions, time and narrative: a liturgical frame</p><p>MATTHEW S. CHAMPION </p><p>3 Landscape, climate and feeling</p><p>HELEN M. HICKEY AND STEPHANIE TRIGG</p><p>PART 2: Spirit and intellect </p><p>4 Emotions and the self: between Aquinas and Descartes</p><p>CLARE MONAGLE </p><p>5 Dreadful devotion</p><p>PAUL MEGNA</p><p>6 Rhetorical theology and the history of emotions</p><p>KIRK ESSARY</p><p>PART 3: Bodies </p><p>7 The emotional body in religious belief and practice</p><p>REBECCA F. MCNAMARA </p><p>8 The corporeal orientation: understanding deviance through the object(s) of love</p><p>MICHAEL D. BARBEZAT </p><p>9 Emotions and sexuality: regulation and homoerotic transgressions</p><p>UMBERTO GRASSI</p><p>10 Sensing and feeling</p><p>LISA BEAVEN</p><p>11 Learning and teaching pain</p><p>JAVIER MOSCOSO</p><p>PART 4: Communities</p><p>12 The emotions of household economics</p><p>KATIE BARCLAY</p><p>13 Death and dying</p><p>GORDON D. RAEBURN</p><p>14 Emotions in public: crowds, mobs and communities</p><p>UNA MCILVENNA</p><p>15 Emotions, exclusion and witchcraft imagery</p><p>CHARLES ZIKA</p><p>16 Letter-writing and emotions</p><p>CAROLYN JAMES AND JESSICA O’LEARY</p><p>17 The materiality of emotions: an archaeological point of view</p><p>JETTE LINAAC </p><p>PART 5: Encounters and excursions</p><p>18 Diplomatic emotions: international relations as gendered acts of power</p><p>SUSAN BROOMHALL</p><p>19 Feeling white: beneath and beyond</p><p>GIOVANNI TARANTINO</p><p>20 Christian missions and global encounters</p><p>ROBIN MACDONALD</p><p>21 Maritime encounters and global history</p><p>NICHOLAS DEAN BRODIE</p><p>PART 6: Cultural expressions</p><p>22 Emotional literatures of war</p><p>ANDREW LYNCH AND GEORGINA PITT</p><p><strong>23 </strong>The changing pursuit of happiness</p><p>JAVIER E. DÍAZ-VERA</p><p>24 Music</p><p>CAROL J. WILLIAMS</p><p>25 Literature: the solicitation of the passions</p><p>PETER HOLBROOK</p><p>26 The theatre of wonder</p><p>KATHRYN PRINCE</p><p>27 Mind over madness: the development of the topos of the melancholic artist</p><p>LAURINDA S. DIXON</p><p>Index</p>