{"title":"Books by Barbara H. Rosenwein","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780801474163","title":"Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With this book Barbara Rosenwein has made the emotions an essential component of our approach to the changing social history.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ― Jacques Le Goff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProposing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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 scientists about the nature of human emotions. Rosenwein explores the character of emotional communities as discovered in several case studies: the funerary inscriptions of three different Gallic cities; the writings of Pope Gregory the Great; the affective world of two friends, Gregory of Tours and Venantius Fortunatus; the Neustrian court of Clothar II and his heirs; and finally the tumultuous period of the late seventh century. In this essay, the author presents a new way to consider the history of emotions, inviting others to continue and advance the inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosenwein's notion of emotional communities is one with which all historians and social scientists working on the emotions will need to contend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294958367093,"sku":"9780801474163","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780801474163_82284795-334c-44bc-a3e0-c712c58835bb.jpg?v=1786015923"},{"product_id":"9781509508501","title":"What is the History of Emotions?","description":"What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the last two decades that they have found systematic and well-grounded ways to treat the topic.     Rosenwein and Cristiani begin with the science of emotion, explaining what contemporary psychologists and neuropsychologists think emotions are. They continue with the major early, foundational approaches to the history of emotions, and they treat in depth new work that emphasizes the role of the body and its gestures. Along the way, they discuss how ideas about emotions and their history have been incorporated into modern literature and technology, from children's books to videogames.     Students, teachers, and anyone else interested in emotions and how to think about them historically will find this book to be an indispensable and fascinating guide not only to the past but to what may lie ahead.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302557888885,"sku":"9781509508501","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509508501_5eb48ea8-3363-4e21-b38f-93adfa1f72d0.jpg?v=1786022282"},{"product_id":"what-is-the-history-of-emotions","title":"What is the History of Emotions?","description":"What is the History of Emotions? A Primer offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the last few decades that they have found systematic and well-grounded ways to treat the topic.   In this updated edition of their acclaimed introduction to this field, Rosenwein and Cristiani begin with the science of emotion, where most of today’s working definitions originate, and explain what contemporary psychologists and neuropsychologists think emotions are. They continue with the foundational approaches to the history of emotions and then treat in depth new work that builds on and develops this scholarship, pushing into some of the field's liveliest debates, including the emotions of animals and plants.   In an entirely new and hands-on section, they offer practical exercises at a variety of levels to help readers engage in and do the history of emotions themselves. Drawing upon a wide range of sources from across time and space, they offer guided analyses of extant historical material. Students, teachers, and anyone else interested in emotions and how to think about them historically will find this primer to be an indispensable and fascinating escort into a new and exciting field.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682655019381,"sku":"9781509569144","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57504890257781,"sku":"9781509569137","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781509569144_e99cff79-c3d6-42fc-b73b-7bf8b06d22c6.jpg?v=1792511591"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-barbara-h-rosenwein.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}