Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages

Name: Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780801474163

ISBN-10: 0801474167

ISBN-13: 9780801474163

Edition: 2007

Authors: Barbara H. Rosenwein

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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.This highly original book is both a study of emotional discourse in the Early Middle Ages and a contribution to the debates among historians and social…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English