Overview
- Applies developments in emotionology to an historical context
- Considers emotions not only as a part of human experience but as a driver of social change
- Develops readers’ understanding of how emotions act within ritual to inform balances of power
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Familial and Personal Rituals: Local and Community Networks
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Civic and Nation-Building: Power Created, Power Reinforced
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Religious Rituals: Relationships with the Divine and the Political
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About this book
This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is alert to the emotions which are woven into and through ritual activities, presents an opportunity to explore profoundly important questions about people’s relationships with others, their relationships with the divine, with power dynamics and importantly, with their concept of their own identity. Each chapter in this volume showcases the different approaches, theories and methodologies that can be used to explore emotions in historical rituals, but they all share the goal of answering the question of how emotions act within ritual to inform balances of power in its many and varied forms.
Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Merridee L. Bailey is a Senior Research Fellow in the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, The University of Adelaide, Australia. She works on the history of England and Europe in the later medieval and early modern periods and is the author of Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England.
Katie Barclay is a DECRA fellow in the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, The University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Love, Intimacy and Power, and numerous articles on family life and emotions. Her current research looks at intimacy amongst the Scottish poor.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200–1920
Book Subtitle: Family, State and Church
Editors: Merridee L. Bailey, Katie Barclay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44185-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44184-9Published: 06 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83005-6Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44185-6Published: 25 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-5958
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5966
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 320
Topics: Cultural History, History of Religion, Memory Studies, Emotion