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

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Routledge, 3 mars 2016 - 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.
 

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Dedication
Now evil deeds arise Evaluating Courage and Fear in Early English Fight
Order Emotion and Gender in the Crusade Letters of Jacques de Vitry
Affective Diplomacy
Ordering Distant Affections Fostering Love and Loyalty in the Correspondence
Emotions and the Social Order of Time Constructing History at Louvains
A Landscape of Ruins Decay and Emotion in Late Medieval and Early Modern
O Lord save us from shame Narratives of Emotions in Convent Chronicles
Recasting Images of Witchcraft in the Later Seventeenth Century The Witch
That the boys come to school half an hour before the girls Order Gender
An Ordered Cloister? Dissenting Passions in Early Modern English Cloisters
Will we ever meet again? Children Travelling the World in the Late
Gendered Power and Emotions The Religious Revival Movement in Herrnhut
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Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia.

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