A cultural history of the emotions in the medieval age
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A cultural history of the emotions in the medieval age
（A cultural history of the emotions / general editors, Susan Broomhall, Jane W. Davidson, and Andrew Lynch, v. 2）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 , c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-175) and index
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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.
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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)
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