Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe |
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Editor:
| Marculescu, Andreea Métivier, Charles-Louis Morand |
Series title: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-3-319-60668-2 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing AG
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Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $139.99USD $119.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.