Generations of Feeling

ISBN-13: 9781107097049 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 390 str.

Barbara Rosenwein

Opis

An exploration of emotional life in the West, considering the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries.

Recenzje

'This book, a masterpiece, offers like everything else that Barbara Rosenwein has written over the last two decades, a lesson in methodology of the history of emotions. … Generations of Feeling, written in a very pleasant and often diverting style … achieves the program Rosenwein outlined in the first decade of our millennium. The author provides in this book an excellent answer to the questions and worries she expressed some fifteen years earlier … an implicit manifesto against any teleological vision of history, even against historical evolution in emotional terms.' Piroska Nagy, Speculum

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Ancient theories; 2. Attachment and detachment; 3. Alcuin's therapy; 4. Love and treachery; 5. Thomas' passions; 6. Theatricality and sobriety; 7. Gerson's music; 8. Despair and happiness; 9. Hobbes' motions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.