Add to ORKGA style of feeling known as the ‘cult of sensibility’ swept through Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century, stressing the importance of both sympathy and public tears. In this article, I argue that this new style to some extent also affected common people’s emotional practices in the Southern Netherlands. Primarily using trial records, three phases in the history of sensibility are roughly distinguished. Up to around 1770, few traces of the cult of sensibility could be found and trial records only reported women as occasionally weeping. This changed in the 1770s and early 1780s, when men were also said to have wept. Only in the 1780s and 1790s, however, when male tears were already disappearing again, explicit references to sym...
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A style of feeling known as the ‘cult of sensibility’ swept through Europe in the second half of the...
From the nineteenth century the adherents of the Devotio Moderna were regarded as the archetypical D...
Throughout history emotions and emotional styles have functioned as social markers to make a distinc...
In the autumn of 2011 the Royal Dutch Historical Society held its annual autumn conference. The them...
Scholars in the history of the self often stress the importance of change in the late eighteenth cen...
This article proposes a combined perspective of Greenblatt’s famous concept of ‘self-fashioning’ and...
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Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne Tijd Het najaarscongres van het KNHG...
Scholars in the history of the self often stress the importance of change in the late eighteenth cen...
Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne TijdHet najaarscongres van het KNHG ...
We know that tears and weeping were important cultural signs in eighteenth century France. But what ...
This article focuses on the emotional resilience of prisoners that affected boththe prison community...
The new history of emotions and the modern history of religion share the important question of the i...
A style of feeling known as the ‘cult of sensibility’ swept through Europe in the second half of the...
From the nineteenth century the adherents of the Devotio Moderna were regarded as the archetypical D...
Throughout history emotions and emotional styles have functioned as social markers to make a distinc...
In the autumn of 2011 the Royal Dutch Historical Society held its annual autumn conference. The them...
Scholars in the history of the self often stress the importance of change in the late eighteenth cen...
This article proposes a combined perspective of Greenblatt’s famous concept of ‘self-fashioning’ and...
De Moderne Devotie, de emoties en de zoektocht naar een Nederlandse identiteitDit artikel zet een kr...
This article reviews some of the current trends within the field of early modern emotion studies, su...
The article addresses affective piety as it developed in the late medieval Low Countries – the new, ...
Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne Tijd Het najaarscongres van het KNHG...
Scholars in the history of the self often stress the importance of change in the late eighteenth cen...
Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne TijdHet najaarscongres van het KNHG ...
We know that tears and weeping were important cultural signs in eighteenth century France. But what ...
This article focuses on the emotional resilience of prisoners that affected boththe prison community...
The new history of emotions and the modern history of religion share the important question of the i...