Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions

Marculescu, Andreea; Métivier, Charles-Louis Morand

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-05-24

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319869094

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60669-9

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 278