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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age
β Scribed by Susan Broomhall; Andrew Lynch
- Publisher
- Cultural Histories
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 225
- Series
- The Cultural Histories Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
A Cultural history of the Emotions' explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, as well as how emotions have themselves created and changed history. Emotions underpin our everyday lives and shape our mental, physical and social well-being.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
GENERAL EDITORSβ PREFACE
Introduction Emotional Cultures of Change and Continuity, 1300β1600
CHAPTER ONE Medical and Scientific Understandings
EMOTIONS IN THE PRODUCTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
THE ORIZING EMOTIONS
BODIES IN CRISES
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER TWO Religion and Spirituality
CHAPTER THREE Music and Dance
INTRODUCTION
MUSIC
DANCE
CHAPTER FOUR Drama
SACRED AND SECULAR SPACES
EMOTIONAL PRACTICES
EMOTIONAL COMMUNITIES
CONCEPTUAL BLENDING
THE ACTORβS DILEMMA
AFFECTIVE PIETY AND PATHOPOEIA
MOBILIZING AND REGULATING EMOTIONS
CHAPTER FIVE The Visual Arts
TYPES OF EMOTION
BODIES AND EMOTIONS: THEORIES OF EMOTION AND VISUAL CULTURE
BODIES AND EMOTIONS: VISUALIZATION OF EMOTIONS THROUGH BODY LANGUAGE
BODIES AND EMOTIONS: VISUALIZATION OF EMOTIONSBY FACIAL EXPRESSION
GRIEF, LOSS, PAIN, DESPAIR AND FEAR
OTHER VISUAL MEANS OF REPRESENTING AND STIRRING EMOTIONS
EMOTIONS AS VICES AND SINβANGER, ENVY, LUST
PICTURING AND PROVOKING JOY, AMUSEMENT AND LAUGHTER
AMOROUS IMAGERY AND ITS RECEPTION
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER SIX Literature
LOVE
ANGER
AFFECT THEORY
LITERATURE AS SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTION
PERFORMING EMOTION
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER SEVEN In Private The Individual and the Domestic Community
CHAPTER EIGHT In Public Collectivities and Polities
HISTORIANS, SOURCES AND EMOTIONS
COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS, RITUALS AND SPACE
WORDS, BELLS AND FLAGS
VIOLENCE, SHAME AND FORGIVENESS
CONCLUDING REMARKS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
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The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional attitudes to history, creating the sense of a rupture from the immediate pas
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<span>Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, lite
A Cultural history of the Emotions' explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, as well as how emotions have themselves created and changed history. Emotions underpin our everyday lives and shape our mental, physical and social well-being.
Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature