The Routledge companion to cultural history in the Western world / edited by Alessandro Arcangeli, Jörg Rogge and Hannu Salmi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arcangeli, Alessandro, editor.

Rogge, Jörg, editor.

Salmi, Hannu, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions

Routledge handbooks

Routledge Companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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text file

Biography/History:

Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona, Italy,the author of a reference book on cultural history and its methods and a scholar in Renaissance studies. He chaired the International Society for Cultural History from 2013 to 2017. Jr̲g Rogge is Academic Director and Adjunct Professor of History, Middle Ages, at the University of Mainz, Germany,and specialized in the history of urban and noble societies. He is the current Chair of the International Society for Cultural History. Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland, Academy Professor for the years 2017-2021 and a historian of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was the first chair of the International Society for Cultural History from 2008 to 2013.

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history, the volume is divided into three parts - medieval, early modern and modern - that emphasize the way people made sense of the world around them. Contributions cover such themes as material cultures of living, mobility and transport, cultural exchange and transfer, power and conflict, emotion and communication, and the history of the senses. The focus is on the Western world, but the notion of the West is a flexible one. In bringing together 36 authors from 15 countries, the book takes a wide geographical coverage, devoting continuous attention to global connections and the emerging trend of globalization. It builds a panorama of the transformation of Western identities, and the critical ramifications of that evolution from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, that offers the reader a wide-ranging illustration of the potentials of cultural history as a way of studying the past in a variety of times, spaces and aspects of human experience. Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes, periods and places, The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

General introduction

PART 1: Shaping Western identities, 1250-1500

Introduction

1. Culture of politics in the Middle Ages: rituals to create and confirm political order

2. Cultures of conflict

3. Material cultures of living: spatiality and everyday life

4. Travel, mobility, and culture in Europe

5. Cultural encounters and transfer: the case of pious foundations in the Islamicate world

6. Practices of communication: literacy, gestures and words

research on late medieval communication

7. Making sense of one's life and the world

8. Conceiving of medieval identities

9. Body, sexuality, and health

10. Contextualizing late medieval emot

PART 2: Europe meets the globe: Western identities in question, 1500-1750

11. God's green garden: interactions between humans and the environment

12. Material cultures of living: European attitudes to novelties

13. Reverence, shame and guilt in early modern European cultures

14. Making sense of the world: the creation and transfer of knowledge

15. The self: representations and practices

16. The experience of time

17. Written communication in urban spaces: publication, textual materiality and appropriations

18. Mobility, global interaction and cultural transfers in the age of exploration

19. Faces of power and conflict

PART 3: The Western world and the global challenge, from 1750 to the present

20. Enlightenment, revolution, and melancholy

21. Individualism and emotion in modern Western culture

22. Health and illness, the self and the body

23. Family, home and variations in domestic life

24. Natural disasters and modernity

25. Cultures of mobility

26. The cultural life of the senses in modernity

27. Media and mediatization

28. Indigenous and postcolonial cultures

29. Violence and trauma: experiencing the two World Wars

30. The Cold War cultures and beyond

31. The culture of commerce and the global economy

32. Epilogue: cultural history in retrospect

Index of names

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9781000097917

1000097919

9781003080206

1003080200

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