The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe

The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe, 1100-1700 presents the state of the field of pre-modern emotions during this period, placing particular emphasis on theoretical and methodological aspects of current research. It is an essential resource for students and researchers of the history of pre-modern emotions.

Andrew Lynch is Emeritus Professor of English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, and a former Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Susan Broomhall is Professor of History at The University of Western Australia. She currently holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, and is Editor of Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Emotions in Europe, 1100-1700: conversations across methodologies 1 ANDREW LYNCH AND SUSAN BROOMHALL PART 1: Time and space 1 Periodization? An answer from the history of emotion BARBARA H. ROSENWEIN 2 Emotions, time and narrative: a liturgical frame MATTHEW S. CHAMPION 3 Landscape, climate and feeling HELEN M. HICKEY AND STEPHANIE TRIGG PART 2: Spirit and intellect 4 Emotions and the self: between Aquinas and Descartes CLARE MONAGLE 5 Dreadful devotion PAUL MEGNA 6 Rhetorical theology and the history of emotions KIRK ESSARY PART 3: Bodies 7 The emotional body in religious belief and practice REBECCA F. MCNAMARA 8 The corporeal orientation: understanding deviance through the object(s) of love MICHAEL D. BARBEZAT 9 Emotions and sexuality: regulation and homoerotic transgressions UMBERTO GRASSI 10 Sensing and feeling LISA BEAVEN 11 Learning and teaching pain JAVIER MOSCOSO PART 4: Communities 12 The emotions of household economics KATIE BARCLAY 13 Death and dying GORDON D. RAEBURN 14 Emotions in public: crowds, mobs and communities UNA MCILVENNA 15 Emotions, exclusion and witchcraft imagery CHARLES ZIKA 16 Letter-writing and emotions CAROLYN JAMES AND JESSICA O'LEARY 17 The materiality of emotions: an archaeological point of view JETTE LINAAC PART 5: Encounters and excursions 18 Diplomatic emotions: international relations as gendered acts of power SUSAN BROOMHALL 19 Feeling white: beneath and beyond GIOVANNI TARANTINO 20 Christian missions and global encounters ROBIN MACDONALD 21 Maritime encounters and global history NICHOLAS DEAN BRODIE PART 6: Cultural expressions 22 Emotional literatures of war ANDREW LYNCH AND GEORGINA PITT 23 The changing pursuit of happiness JAVIER E. DÍAZ-VERA 24 Music CAROL J. WILLIAMS 25 Literature: the solicitation of the passions PETER HOLBROOK 26 The theatre of wonder KATHRYN PRINCE 27 Mind over madness: the development of the topos of the melancholic artist LAURINDA S. DIXON Index