Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder

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Professor Susan Broomhall
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 28 nov. 2015 - 282 pages

States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and align religious beliefs, practices and communities. At the same time, societies understood that affective states had the potential to destroy order, creating undesirable disorder and instability that had both individual and communal consequences. These had to be actively managed, through social mechanisms such as children's education, acculturation, and training, and also through religious, intellectual, and textual practices that were both socio-cultural and individual. Presenting the latest research from an international team of scholars, this volume argues that the ways in which emotions created states of order and disorder in medieval and early modern Europe were deeply informed by contemporary gender ideologies. Together, the essays reveal the critical roles that gender ideologies and lived, structured, and desired emotional states played in producing both stability and instability.

 

Table des matières

List of Figures
Evaluating Courage and Fear in Early
Order Emotion and Gender in the Crusade Letters of Jacques
Affective Diplomacy
Fostering Love and Loyalty in
Clara Eugenia and Catharina Daughters of Philip II of Spain
Constructing History
Decay and Emotion in Late Medieval
Recasting Images of Witchcraft in the Later Seventeenth
Andreas Pfeffel The Witch of Endor Calls Up the Dead
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4a Selfportrait of a school boy from the concealed find
An Ordered Cloister? Dissenting Passions in Early Modern
Will we ever meet again? Children Travelling the World in
The Religious Revival

Narratives of Emotions

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À propos de l'auteur (2015)

Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia.

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