A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

by Juanita Ruys (Editor), Clare Monagle (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350091771
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/20/2020
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Clare Monagle is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia. She has published widely in the fields of medieval intellectual history, as well as in the history of political and theoretical medievalism in the twentieth century.

Juanita Feros Ruys is Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of The Repentant Abelard (2014) and Demons in the Middle Ages (2017).
Juanita Feros Ruys is an intellectual historian of the European Middle Ages and was Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Sydney, Australia (2011-2018). She is the author of The Repentant Abelard (2014) and Demons in the Middle Ages (2017).
Clare Monagle is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editors' Preface
Introduction, Clare Monagle (Macquarie University, Australia)
1. Medical and Scientific Understandings, Nicole Archambeau (Colorado State University, USA)
2. Religion and Spirituality, Daniel Anlezark (University of Sydney, Australia)
3. Music and Dance, Constance J. Mews (Monash University, Australia) and Carol Williams (Monash University, Australia)
4. Drama, Sarah Jane Brazil (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
5. The Visual Arts, Katherine Boivin (Bard University, USA)
6. Literature, Juanita Feros Ruys (University of Sydney, Australia)
7. In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community, Lisa Perfetti (Whitman College, USA)
8. In Public: Collectivities and Polities, Jehangir Malegam (Duke University, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index