A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age

✍ Scribed by Susan Broomhall; Andrew Lynch

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 past. In this volatile context, cultural products of all kinds offered competing objects of love, hate, hope and fear. Art, music, dance and song provided new models of family affection, interpersonal intimacy, relationship with God, and gender and national identities. The public and private spaces of courts, cities and houses shaped the practices and rituals in which emotional lives were expressed and understood. Scientific and medical discoveries changed emotional relations to the cosmos, the natural world and the body. Both continuing traditions and new sources of cultural authority made emotions central to the concept of human nature, and involved them in every aspect of existence.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE
Introduction Emotional Cultures of Change and Continuity, 1300–1600
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 ACTOR’S 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 SIN—ANGER, 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