Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Andreea Marculescu - Charles-Louis Morand Métivier éd.)

Source : Springer This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to diffe..