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

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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. 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