Emotions in Europe, 1100–1700: conversations across methodologies
Part 1 Time and space
1 Periodization? An answer from the history of emotions
2 Emotions, time and narrative: a liturgical frame
3 Landscape, climate and feeling
Part 2 Spirit and intellect
4 Emotions and the self: between Aquinas and Descartes
5 Dreadful devotion
6 Rhetorical theology and the history of emotions
Part 3 Bodies
7 The emotional body in religious belief and practice
8 The corporeal orientation: understanding deviance through the object(s) of love
9 Emotions and sexuality: regulation and homoerotic transgressions
10 Sensing and feeling
11 Learning and teaching pain
Part 4 Communities
12 The emotions of household economics
13 Death and dying
14 Emotions in public: crowds, mobs and communities
15 Emotions, exclusion and witchcraft imagery
16 Letter-writing and emotions
17 The materiality of emotions: an archaeological point of view
Part 5 Encounters and excursions
18 Diplomatic emotions: international relations as gendered acts of power
19 Feeling white: beneath and beyond
20 Christian missions and global encounters
21 Maritime encounters and global history
Part 6 Cultural expressions
22 Emotional literatures of war
23 The changing pursuit of happiness
24 Music
25 Literature: the solicitation of the passions
26 The theatre of wonder
27 Mind over madness: the development of the topos of the melancholic artist
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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 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. Exploring topics such as love, war, sex and sexuality, death, time, the body and the family in the context of emotional culture, The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700 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. (Source: https://www.vitalsource.com/products/the-routledge-history-of-emotions-in-europe-susan-broomhall-v9781351750097?term=9780367700775)