Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600–1700 - Hardcover

Rosenwein, Barbara H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107097045 ISBN 13: 9781107097049

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their times. Focusing specifically on groups within England and France, chapters address communities as diverse as the monastery of Rievaulx in twelfth-century England and the ducal court of fifteenth-century Burgundy, assessing the ways in which emotional norms and modes of expression respond to, and in turn create, their social, religious, ideological, and cultural environments. Contemplating emotions experienced 'on the ground' as well as those theorized in the treatises of Alcuin, Thomas Aquinas, Jean Gerson and Thomas Hobbes, this insightful study offers a profound new narrative of emotional life in the West.

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Book Description:

This new narrative of emotional life in the West considers the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries. Covering both emotions as expressed 'on the ground' and as theorised in treatises, it offers the first complete picture of the history of emotions in pre-modern Western Europe.

About the Author:

Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor Emerita at Loyola University, Chicago. An internationally renowned historian, she has been a Guest Professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and most recently the University of Oxford (Trinity College). She was a scholar in residence at the American Academy in Rome (2001-2) and was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2003. Rosenwein has lectured throughout the world. Her work on the history of emotions includes the editing of Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages (1998) and the authoring of Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (2006). In 2012, a conference was held at Auxerre, France, to honor Rosenwein's contributions to medieval history (De Cluny ... Auxerre, par la voie des 'émotions'. Un parcours d'historienne du Moyen Âge). In 2013, two sessions (To Be a Neighbour to St Maurice) were organized in her honour at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, and in 2014, a conference to honour her work (At the Intersection of Medieval History and the Social Sciences) was held at the Newberry Library, Chicago. She has won several prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1992) and several National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107097045
• ISBN 13: 9781107097049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 390