A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age (The Cultural Histories Series)

The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional attitudes to history, creating the sense of a rupture from the immediate past. In this volatile context, cultural products of all kinds offered competing objects of love, hate, hope and fear. Art, music, dance and song provided new models of family affection, interpersonal intimacy, relationship with God, and gender and national identities. The public and private spaces of courts, cities and houses shaped the practices and rituals in which emotional lives were expressed and understood. Scientific and medical discoveries changed emotional relations to the cosmos, the natural world and the body. Both continuing traditions and new sources of cultural authority made emotions central to the concept of human nature, and involved them in every aspect of existence. Cover 1 Halftitle page 2 Series page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 CONTENTS 6 ILLUSTRATIONS 7 GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE 12 Introduction Emotional Cultures of Change and Continuity, 1300–1600 14 CHAPTER ONE Medical and Scientific Understandings 26 EMOTIONS IN THE PRODUCTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE 26 THE ORIZING EMOTIONS 33 BODIES IN CRISES 38 CONCLUSION 41 CHAPTER TWO Religion and Spirituality 44 CHAPTER THREE Music and Dance 62 INTRODUCTION 62 MUSIC 62 DANCE 70 CHAPTER FOUR Drama 82 SACRED AND SECULAR SPACES 83 EMOTIONAL PRACTICES 86 EMOTIONAL COMMUNITIES 88 CONCEPTUAL BLENDING 89 THE ACTOR’S DILEMMA 92 AFFECTIVE PIETY AND PATHOPOEIA 94 MOBILIZING AND REGULATING EMOTIONS 95 CHAPTER FIVE The Visual Arts 98 TYPES OF EMOTION 98 BODIES AND EMOTIONS: THEORIES OF EMOTION AND VISUAL CULTURE 100 BODIES AND EMOTIONS: VISUALIZATION OF EMOTIONS THROUGH BODY LANGUAGE 102 BODIES AND EMOTIONS: VISUALIZATION OF EMOTIONSBY FACIAL EXPRESSION 107 GRIEF, LOSS, PAIN, DESPAIR AND FEAR 107 OTHER VISUAL MEANS OF REPRESENTING AND STIRRING EMOTIONS 110 EMOTIONS AS VICES AND SIN—ANGER, ENVY, LUST 113 PICTURING AND PROVOKING JOY, AMUSEMENT AND LAUGHTER 114 AMOROUS IMAGERY AND ITS RECEPTION 116 CONCLUSION 119 CHAPTER SIX Literature 120 LOVE 121 ANGER 124 AFFECT THEORY 125 LITERATURE AS SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTION 127 PERFORMING EMOTION 129 CONCLUSION 134 CHAPTER SEVEN In Private The Individual and the Domestic Community 136 CHAPTER EIGHT In Public Collectivities and Polities 154 HISTORIANS, SOURCES AND EMOTIONS 155 COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS, RITUALS AND SPACE 158 WORDS, BELLS AND FLAGS 160 VIOLENCE, SHAME AND FORGIVENESS 164 CONCLUDING REMARKS 167 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 170 NOTES 174 REFERENCES 180 INDEX 212 A Cultural History Of The Emotions' Explores How Emotions Have Changed Over The Course Of Human History, As Well As How Emotions Have Themselves Created And Changed History. Emotions Underpin Our Everyday Lives And Shape Our Mental, Physical And Social Well-being. Volume 1 -- In Antiquity. -- Volume 2 -- In The Medieval Age. -- Volume 3 -- In The Late-medieval, Reformation,and Renaissance Age. -- Volume 4 -- In The Baroque And Enlightenment Age. -- Volume 5 -- In The Age Of Romanticism, Revolution, And Empire. -- Volume 6 -- In The Modern And Post-modern Age. General Editors : Susan Broomhall, Jane W. Davidson And Andrew Lynch ; Edited By Douglas Cairns ; Andrew Lynch, Susan Broomhall ; Juanita Feros Ruys, Clare Mongale ; Claire Walker, Katie Barclay, David Lemmings ; Susan J. Matt ; Jane W. Davidson And Joy Damousi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.