Anger's Past The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages / ed. by Barbara H. Rosenwein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenwein, Barbara H. 1945- Editor.

Series:

European history, medieval and renaissance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--Medieval.

Social history.

Anger.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Anger--History.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 10 halftones, 1 drawing, 1 table

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 1998

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in the Middle Ages. Well aware of modern theories about the nature of anger, the authors consider the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants. They are careful to distinguish between texts (the sources on which historians must rely) and the reality behind the texts. They are sensitive, as well, to the differences between ideals and normative behavior.The first eight essays in the volume focus on anger in the Latin West, while the last two turn to the fringes of Europe (the Celtic and Islamic worlds) for purposes of comparison. Barbara H. Rosenwein concludes the volume with an essay on modern conceptions of anger and their implications for understanding its role in the Middle Ages. The essays reveal much that is new about medieval rituals of honor and status and illuminate the rationales behind such seemingly irrational practices as cursing, feuding, and the punishment of blinding.Contributors: Gerd Althoff, University of Münster; Richard E. Barton, Yale University; Geneviéve Bührer-Thierry, University of Marne-la-Vallée; Wendy Davies, University College London; Paul Freedman, Yale University; Zouhair Ghazzal, Loyola University, Chicago; Paul Hyams, Cornell University; Lester K. Little, Smith College; Catherine Peyroux, Duke University; Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University, Chicago; Stephen D. White, Emory University

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction / Rosenwein, Barbara H.

Part I. Monks and Saints

1. Anger in Monastic Curses / Little, Lester K.

2. Gertrude's furor: Reading Anger in an Early Medieval Saint's Life / Peyroux, Catherine

Part II. Kings and Emperors

3. Ira Regis: Prolegomena to a History of Royal Anger / Althoff, Gerd

4· "Just Anger" or "Vengeful Anger"? The Punishment of Blinding in the Early Medieval West / Bührer-Thierry, Geneviève

5. What Did Henry ill of England Think in Bed and in French about Kingship and Anger? / Hyams, Paul

Part III. Lords and Peasants

6. The Politics of Anger / White, Stephen D.

7. "Zealous Anger" and the Renegotiation of Aristocratic Relationships in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France / Barton, Richard E.

8. Peasant Anger in the Late Middle Ages / Freedman, Paul

Part TV. Celts and Muslims

9. Anger and the Celtic Saint / Davies, Wendy

10. From Anger on Behalf of God to "Forbearance" in Islamic Medieval Literature / Ghazzal, Zouhair

Part V. Conclusions

11. Controlling Paradigms / Rosenwein, Barbara H.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Literaturangaben.

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ISBN:

9781501718694

150171869X

OCLC:

1083624229