A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age Volume 3

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. Cover Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE Introduction Emotional Cultures of Change and Continuity, 1300–1600 CHAPTER ONE Medical and Scientific Understandings EMOTIONS IN THE PRODUCTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE THE ORIZING EMOTIONS BODIES IN CRISES CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWO Religion and Spirituality CHAPTER THREE Music and Dance INTRODUCTION MUSIC DANCE CHAPTER FOUR Drama SACRED AND SECULAR SPACES EMOTIONAL PRACTICES EMOTIONAL COMMUNITIES CONCEPTUAL BLENDING THE ACTOR’S DILEMMA AFFECTIVE PIETY AND PATHOPOEIA MOBILIZING AND REGULATING EMOTIONS CHAPTER FIVE The Visual Arts TYPES OF EMOTION BODIES AND EMOTIONS: THEORIES OF EMOTION AND VISUAL CULTURE BODIES AND EMOTIONS: VISUALIZATION OF EMOTIONS THROUGH BODY LANGUAGE BODIES AND EMOTIONS: VISUALIZATION OF EMOTIONSBY FACIAL EXPRESSION GRIEF, LOSS, PAIN, DESPAIR AND FEAR OTHER VISUAL MEANS OF REPRESENTING AND STIRRING EMOTIONS EMOTIONS AS VICES AND SIN—ANGER, ENVY, LUST PICTURING AND PROVOKING JOY, AMUSEMENT AND LAUGHTER AMOROUS IMAGERY AND ITS RECEPTION CONCLUSION CHAPTER SIX Literature LOVE ANGER AFFECT THEORY LITERATURE AS SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTION PERFORMING EMOTION CONCLUSION CHAPTER SEVEN In Private The Individual and the Domestic Community CHAPTER EIGHT In Public Collectivities and Polities HISTORIANS, SOURCES AND EMOTIONS COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS, RITUALS AND SPACE WORDS, BELLS AND FLAGS VIOLENCE, SHAME AND FORGIVENESS CONCLUDING REMARKS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX The period 1300-1600 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, the 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 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.