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Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages

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Description for Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLH; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.

"With this book Barbara Rosenwein has made the emotions an essential component of our approach to the changing social history."
― Jacques Le Goff

Proposing that people lived (and live) in "emotional communities"—each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression—Barbara H. Rosenwein here discusses some instances from the Early Middle Ages. Drawing on extensive microhistorical research, as well as cognitive and social constructionist theories of the emotions, Rosenwein shows that different emotional communities coexisted, that some were dominant at times, and that religious beliefs affected emotional styles even as those styles helped shape religious expression.

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For medievalists, early modernists, and historians of the modern world, the book will be of interest for its persuasive critique of Norbert Elias's highly influential notion of the "civilizing process."

Rosenwein's notion of emotional communities is one with which all historians and social scientists working on the emotions will need to contend.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801474163
SKU
V9780801474163
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About Barbara H. Rosenwein
Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe and To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049, editor of Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages and coeditor of ... Read more

Reviews for Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages
"This is a landmark book, not only for the early middle ages but also for the emerging field of the history of emotions. Barbara H. Rosenwein evaluates with superb intelligence the strengths and weaknesses of the various methods that have been applied in this field, and fashions an approach of her own that will serve as a useful model for ... Read more

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