A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age Volume 2

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 Medieval Emotions Near and Far EMOTIONS HISTORY AND THE MIDDLE AGES THIS VOLUME AND ITS TIMEFRAME LATE ANTIQUITY: CONVERSION AND RENUNCIATION THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES CONCLUSION CHAPTER ONE Medical and Scientific Understandings EMOTIONS IN THE MEDICAL TEXTS OFLATE ANTIQUITY (350–700) AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (700–1000) MEDICAL APPROACHES TO EMOTION IN HIGH ANDLATE MEDIEVAL WESTERN MEDICINE, 1000–130 TREATING DISORDERED EMOTIONS IN THE HIGH AND LATE MIDDLE AGES CONCLUSION: NONNATURALS IN LATER REGIMENS OF HEALTH CHAPTER TWO Religion and Spirituality THE ANTIQUE INHERITANCE EMOTION AND HUMANITY IN THE DREAM OF THE ROOD FEELING FOR GOD: ANCRENE WISSE CONCLUSION CHAPTER THREE Music and Dance THE PATRISTIC LEGACY: AMBROSE AND AUGUSTINE BOETHIUS AND HIS LEGACY GUIDO OF AREZZO AND THE RENEWAL OF CHANT IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES LITURGY, DANCE, AND ECCLESIASTICAL CAUTION THE IMPACT OF ARISTOTLE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY CONCLUSION CHAPTER FOUR Drama DRAMA OF THE LATE EMPIRE: MIME, PANTOMIME, AND CHRISTIAN DENUNCIATION THE TRANSITION TO MEDIEVAL DRAMA LOCATING EMOTION IN LITURGICAL DRAMA EXTREME EMOTION IN LITURGICAL DRAMA: GRIEF AND ANGER HROTSVIT OF GANDERSHEIM AND THE ROMAN LEGACY PERFORMING EMOTION IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES CONCLUSION CHAPTER FIVE The Visual Arts GESTURES OF EMOTION: THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS JUDGMENT OF EMOTION: ADAM AND EVE AND THE LAST JUDGMENT MIMESIS OF EMOTION: THE VIRGIN MARY CONCLUSION CHAPTER SIX Literature LATE ANTIQUITY CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE HIGH MIDDLE AGES LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER SEVEN In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community PRELUDE: PRIVATE OR PUBLIC, INDIVIDUAL OR COMMUNAL? AFFECTIVE TIES AND THE CONCEPT OF FAMILY LOVE AND PASSION, FRIENDSHIP AND MARRIAGE PARENTS AND CHILDREN CONCLUSION CHAPTER EIGHT In Public: Collectivities and Polities PERIODIZATION OF EMOTIONAL STYLES AND PRACTICES OF FEELING THE PRODUCTION OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, 350–1300 FEUDING PROCESSES OF THE LAY ELITE IN WESTERN EUROPE, 500–1300 THE EMOTIONAL TEMPLATE OF RULERSHIP, 750–1300 EMOTIONAL LIFE OF URBAN COMMUNITIES, 1050–1300 CONCLUSION NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX "Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their acceptance as a means towards devotion. In religion, we see a move from the ascetic regulation of emotions to the affective piety of the later medieval period that valued the believer's identification with the Passion of Christ and the sorrow of Mary. In science and medicine, the nature and causes of emotions, their role in constituting the human person, and their impact on the same became a subject of academic inquiry. Emotions also played an increasingly important public role, evidenced in populace-wide events such as conversion and the strategies of rulership. Between 350 and 1300, emotions were transformed from something to be transcended into a location for meditation upon what it means to be human." --Publisher website "Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their acceptance as a means towards devotion. In religion, we see a move from the ascetic regulation of emotions to the affective piety of the later medieval period that valued the believer's identification with the Passion of Christ and the sorrow of Mary. In science and medicine, the nature and causes of emotions, their role in constituting the human person, and their impact on the same became a subject of academic inquiry. Emotions also played an increasingly important public role, evidenced in populace-wide events such as conversion and the strategies of rulership. Between 350 and 1300, emotions were transformed from something to be transcended into a location for meditation upon what it means to be human." --From publisher Introduction: What were Emotions? Definitions and Understandings -- 1. Medical and Scientific Understandings -- 2. Religion and Spirituality -- 3. Music and Dance -- 4. Drama -- 5. The Visual Arts -- 6. Literature -- 7. In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community -- 8. In Public: Collectivities and Polities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Note that abstract blurb not available