Anger's Past The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages

Name: Anger's Past The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780801483431

ISBN-10: 0801483433

ISBN-13: 9780801483431

Edition: 1998

Authors: Barbara H. Rosenwein

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Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in the Middle Ages. Well aware of modern theories about the nature of anger, the authors consider the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants. They are careful to distinguish between texts (the sources on which historians must rely) and the reality behind the texts. They are sensitive, as well, to the differences between ideals and normative behavior. The first eight essays in the volume focus on anger in the Latin West, while…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/16/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction




Monks and Saints



Anger in Monastic Curses




Gertrude's furor: Reading Anger in an Early Medieval Saint's Life




Kings and Emperors



Ira Regis: Prolegomena to a History of Royal Anger




"Just Anger" or "Vengeful Anger"? The Punishment of Blinding in the Early Medieval West




What Did Henry III of England Think in Bed and in French about Kingship and Anger?




Lords and Peasants



The Politics of Anger




"Zealous Anger" and the Renegotiation of Aristocratic Relationships in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France




Peasant Anger in the Late Middle Ages




Celts and Muslims



Anger and the Celtic Saint




From Anger on Behalf of God to "Forbearance" in Islamic Medieval Literature




Conclusions



Controlling Paradigms



Contributors


Index