Early Modern Emotions

An Introduction

Susan Broomhall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781315441344
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in early modern Europe, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly.

The volume is divided into four sections that guide students through the key processes and practices employed in current research on the history of emotions. The first explains how key terms and concepts in the study of emotions relate to early modern Europe, while the second focuses on the unique ways in which emotions were conceptualized at the time. The third section introduces a range of sources and methodologies that are used to analyse early modern emotions. The final section includes a wide-ranging selection of thematic topics covering war, religion, family, politics, art, music, literature and the non-human world to show how analysis of emotions may offer new perspectives on the early modern period more broadly.

Each section offers bite-sized, accessible commentaries providing students new to the history of emotions with the tools to begin their own investigations. Each entry is supported by annotated further reading recommendations pointing students to the latest research in that area and at the end of the book is a general bibliography, which provides a comprehensive list of current scholarship.

This book is the perfect starting point for any student wishing to study emotions in early modern Europe.

Index

1. Acerbi, Alberto 30
2. Adams, Thomas 55
3. Adams, Tracy 225–8
4. Adamson, John 181
5. Addison, Joseph 67
6. administrative records 15, 304, 309, 313–8
7. admiration 35, 75–7, 203, 234, 304–5
8. adoration 231, 268
9. Aebischer, Pascale 95
10. Aemilie Juliane, countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 212–14
11. affect theories 10–13
12. affection(s) xxxvi, 33–4, 49, 106, 158, 170, 173–6, 270, 278, 288, 305–6; holy 67–70
13. affective economies 18–19, 325; fields 18, 131; value 19
14. affiliation 65, 185, 314
15. agency 17–18, 55, 71, 167, 184–5, 212, 252, 292, 315, 343
16. Ahmed, Sara 13, 18–20, 66, 131–2, 257, 298, 300, 324, 326
17. Ahrendt, Rebekah 230
18. Aikin, Judith 212, 214
19. Akkerman, F. 217
20. Alberti, Fay Bound 167, 207
21. Alberti, Leon Battista 38–9
22. Aldrich, Keith 269
23. Alembert, Jean le Rond d’ 29–30
24. Alighieri, Dante 54, 89
25. Allen, Christopher 74–7
26. Allen, Michael J. 140
27. Almond, Robert 340
28. Altbauer-Rudnik, Michal 55, 355
29. altruism 274–5
30. amazement 29, 34
31. ambition 10, 56, 248, 25...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Section I Modern theories and models of emotions
• Section II Early modern terms, concepts and practices of emotions
• Section III Sources and methodologies for early modern emotions
• Section IV Focus topics for the early modern period
• Select bibliography
• Index