A History of Emotions, 1200-1800: Studies for the International Society for Cultural History

Introduction, Jonas Liliequist; Chapter 1 Theories of Change in the History of Emotions, Barbara H. Rosenwein; Chapter 2 Ottoman Love: Preface to a Theory of Emotional Ecology, Walter Andrews; Chapter 3 Preachers, Saints and Sinners: Emotional Repertoires in High Medieval Religious Role Models, Christina Lutter; Chapter 4 Theology and Interiority: Emotions as Evidence of the Working of Grace in Elizabethan and Stuart Conversion Narratives, Paola Baseotto; Chapter 5 ‘Finer’ Feelings: Sociability, Sensibility and the Emotions of Gens de Lettres in Eighteenth-Century France, Anne C. Vila; Chapter 6 Music as Wonder and Delight: Construction of Gender in Early Modern Opera Through Musical Representation and Arousal of Emotions, Johanna Ethnersson Pontara; Chapter 7 Politesse and Sprezzatura: The History of Emotions in the Art of Antoine Watteau, Pamela W. Whedon; Chapter 8 Emotions and Gender: The Case of Anger in Early Modern English Revenge Tragedies, Kristine Steenbergh; Chapter 9 Beauty, Masculinity and Love Between Men: Configuring Emotions with Michael Drayton’s Peirs Gaveston, Anu Korhonen; Chapter 10 ‘Pray, Dr, is there Reason to Fear a Cancer?’ Fear of Breast Cancer in Early Modern Britain, Marjo Kaartinen; Chapter 11 The Little Girl who could not Stop Crying: The Use of Emotions as Signifiers of True Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Greenland, Allan Sortkaer; Chapter 12 The Political Rhetoric of Tears in Early Modern Sweden, Jonas Liliequist;

The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and theoretical questions as to their use.