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Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Andreea Marculescu, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier
    Pages 1-16
  3. Affective Encounters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Emotional Contagion: Évrart de Conty and Compassion

      • Béatrice Delaurenti
      Pages 107-126
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 247-278

About this book

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.

Reviews

“This volume is a panorama of current scholarship in several subjects that have been impacted by the history of emotions. Its theoretical and disciplinary scope, as well as its geographical and chronological remit, is impressive. This collection will appeal particularly to those interested in the history of emotions, affect and somatic responses, in the late mediaeval and early modern period, especially with respect to the exercise of power and responses to trauma.” (Luc Racaut, Lecturer in History, Newcastle University, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

    Andreea Marculescu

  • Department of Romance Languages and Linguistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

    Charles-Louis Morand Métivier

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.

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Softcover Book USD 89.99
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