Generations of Feeling

ISBN-13: 9781107480841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 390 str.

Barbara Rosenwein

Opis

This new narrative of emotional life in the West considers the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries. Covering both emotions as expressed 'on the ground' and as theorised in treatises, it offers the first complete picture of the history of emotions in pre-modern Western Europe.

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.