Overview
- Builds on Barbara Rosenwein’s influential notion of emotional communities
- Takes a longue durée approach, transcending national and chronological boundaries that often constrain treatments of the history of emotions
- Interdisciplinary in approach, investigating a variety of sources: literary, medical, religious and political
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)
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This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Subverting Emotional Norms
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Authoring Emotions
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andreea Marculescu is Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA.
Charles-Louis Morand Métivier is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Editors: Andreea Marculescu, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60669-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60668-2Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86909-4Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60669-9Published: 05 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-5958
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5966
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 278
Topics: Cultural History, History of Medieval Europe, History of Early Modern Europe, Intellectual Studies