Ordering emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 / edited by Susan Broomhall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broomhall, Susan, editor.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; 1573-4188 v. 195.

Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; Volume 195

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy)--History.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Civilization.

History.

Europe--Civilization--History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

XVI, 319 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 investigates how emotions were conceptualised and practised in the medieval and early modern period, as they ordered systems of thought and practice-from philosophy and theology, to science and medicine.

Contents:

1 Nine Angry Angels: Order, Emotion, and the Angelic and Demonic Hierarchies in the High Middle Ages / Juanita Feros Ruys Ruys, Juanita Feros 14

2 Christ's Masculinity: Homo and Vir in Peter Lombard's Sentences / Clare Monagle Monagle, Clare 32

3 Modes and Manipulation: Music, the State, and Emotion / Carol J. Williams Williams, Carol J. 48

4 Avarice, Emotions, and the Family in Thirteenth-Century Moral Discourse / Spencer E. Young Young, Spencer E. 69

5 Affective Memory across Time: The Emotive City of Christine de Pizan / Louise D'Arcens D'Arcens, Louise 85

6 Nicholas of Modrus's De consolatione (1465-1466): A New Approach to Grief Management / Han Baltussen Baltussen, Han 105

7 Hearts on Fire: Compassion and Love in Nicolas Houel's Traite de la Charité chrestienne / Susan Broomhall Broomhall, Susan 121

8 Living Anxiously: The Senses, Society and Morality in Pre-Modern England / Danijela Kambaskovic Kambaskovic, Danijela 161

9 Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal Love / Raphaële Garrod Garrod, Raphaële 180

10 Anatomy of a Passion: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tate as Case Study / Louis C. Charland Charland, Louis C., R.S. White White, R.S. 197

11 Arts and Games of Love: Genre, Gender and Special Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetry / Yasmin Haskell Haskell, Yasmin 225

12 Androgyny and the Fear of Demonic Intervention in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula: Ecclesiastical and Popular Responses / François Soyer Soyer, François 245

13 Medical Effects and Affects: The Expression of Emotions in Early Modern Patient-Physician Correspondence / Robert L. Weston Weston, Robert L. 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-307) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004305090

9004305092

OCLC:

914417663