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.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Susan Broomhall
I. Modern Theories and Models of Emotions
I.1 Emotional community
Andrew Lynch
I.2 Emotives and emotional regimes
Tania M. Colwell
I.3 Affect theory
Stephanie Trigg
I.4 Performance and performativity
Katie Barclay
I.5 Materiality
Sarah Randles
I.6 Space and place
Katie Barclay
I.7 Psychological approaches
Jane W. Davidson and Sandra Garrido
I.8 Large dataset mining
Inger Leemans
II. Early Modern Terms, Concepts and Practices of Emotions
II.1 Language of emotions
R.S. White
II.2 Emotion
Patricia Simons
II.3 Humoral theory
Danijela Kambaskovic
II.4 The senses
Herman Roodenburg
II.5 Pain and suffering
Javier Moscoso
II.6 Grammar
Ross Knecht
II.7 Mood
R.S. White
II.8 Love
Danijela Kambaskovic
II.9 Melancholy
Erin Sullivan
II.10 Fellow-feeling
Katherine Ibbett
II.11 Sociality and sociability
Katrina O’Loughlin
II.12 Holy affections
Hannah Newton
II.13 The passions
Aleksondra Hultquist
II.14 Contemplation
Christopher Allen
II.15 Sensibility
Katrina O’Loughlin
II.16 The expressive face
Linda Walsh
III. Sources and Methodologies for Early Modern Emotions
III.1 Poetry
Diana Barnes
III.2 Drama
Kathryn Prince
III.3 Epistolary literature
Diana Barnes
III.4 Educational treatises
Merridee L. Bailey
III.5 Histories, chronicles, and memoirs
Erika Kuijpers
III.6 Medical sources
Robert L. Weston
III.7 Economic records
Merridee L. Bailey
III.8 Judicial sources
Joanne McEwan
III.9 Church and parish records
Charlotte-Rose Millar
III.10 Missionary texts
Ananya Chakravarti
III.11 Letters
Carolyn James
III.12 Maps
Alicia Marchant
III.13 Books
Stephanie Downes
III.14 Household objects
Tara Hamling
III.15 Prints and illustrated broadsheets
Charles Zika
III.16 Monuments
Peter Sherlock
III.17 Devotional objects
Mary Laven
III.18 Textiles
Sally Holloway
III.19 Gestures
Jane W. Davidson and Alan Maddox
III.20 The body
Karen Harvey
III.21 Music
Alan Maddox and Jane W. Davidson
III.22 Archives
James Daybell
IV. Focus Topics for the Early Modern Period
Political Realms
IV.1 Monarchies
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
IV.2 Republics
Catharine Gray
IV.3 Political revolutions
Michael J. Braddick
IV.4 Radical formations
Christina Petterson
IV.5 Law
David Lemmings
IV.6 Punishment as public spectacle
Una McIlvenna
Destructive Experiences
IV.7 Indebtedness
Elise M. Dermineur
IV.8 War and violence
Erika Kuijpers
IV.9 Plague
Gordon D. Raeburn
IV.10 Domestic violence
Raisa Maria Toivo
Life Stages
IV.11 Pregnancy and childbirth
Joanne Begiato (Bailey)
IV.12 Childhood
Claudia Jarzebowski
IV.13 Marriage
Katie Barclay
IV.14 Death
Peter Sherlock
Spaces
IV.15 Court culture
Tracy Adams
IV.16 Theatre and stage
Samantha Owens
IV.17 Church interiors
Sing d’Arcy
IV.18 Battlefields
Alicia Marchant
IV.19 Civic culture
Nicholas A. Eckstein
IV.20 Village
Elise M. Dermineur
IV.21 Family and household
Katie Barclay
Intellectual and cultural traditions
IV.22 Humanism
Andrea Rizzi
IV.23 Print media
Luc Racaut
IV.24 Antiquarianism
Alicia Marchant
IV.25 Medicine and science
Yasmin Haskell
IV.26 Baroque music
Jane W. Davidson and Alan Maddox
IV.27 Baroque art
Stephanie S. Dickey
IV.28 Enlightenment
Laura Mandell
IV.29 Romanticism
R.S. White
Beliefs
IV.30 Monastic communities
Claire Walker
IV.31 The Reformations
Susan C. Karant-Nunn
IV.32 Tolerance
Giovanni Tarantino
IV.33 Protestant theology
Alec Ryrie
IV.34 Witchcraft
Jacqueline Van Gent
IV.35 Wonders of nature
Jennifer Spinks
IV.36 Racial othering - Jews
Francois Soyer
IV.37 Muslim ‘Others’
Audrey Calefas-Strebelle
The World Beyond Europe
IV.38 Global trading empires
Jacqueline Van Gent
IV.39 Amerindian and African slaves
Giuseppe Marcocci
IV.40 Missionary Catholicism
Peter A. Goddard
IV.41 Protestant global missions
Jacqueline Van Gent
IV.42 Colonialism
Donna Merwick
IV.43 Theories of empire
Nicole Eustace
IV.44 Indigenous/European encounters
Maria Nugent
The Non-Human World
IV.45 Relations with the divine
Phyllis Mack
IV.46 The Devil and demons
Laura Kounine
IV.47 Ghosts, fairies and the world of spirits
Julian Goodare
IV.48 Fantasy figures
Melissa Percival
IV.49 Working animals
Louise Hill Curth
IV.50 Familiars
Charlotte-Rose Millar
IV.51 Vermin
Lucinda Cole
IV.52 Nature
Grace Moore
IV.53 Landscape
Anthony Colantuono
Early Modern Emotions Scholarship: A Select Bibliography
Index
Biography
Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow attached to the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Previous works on emotions include (as editor) Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850 (2015) and Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder (2015).
"A savory book for anyone interested in the history of emotions, Early Modern Emotions offers the timid a tempting buffet of short essays to sample, while the more serious scholar will find the whole a sumptuous feast."
Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor emerita, Loyola University Chicago, USA"This is an inspiring collection. The brief essays explain complicated topics in clear language and with engaging examples. The volume makes historiography approachable for students, who can use the material as the starting point for classroom discussions or research papers. Such a wide range of material is so ably handled that the scholar, too, will profit from dipping into the book to think about early modern emotions from new angles."
Caroline R. Sherman, The Catholic University of America, USA
