Managing Emotion in Byzantium : Passions, Affects and Imaginings Paperback / softback
Edited by Margaret Mullett, Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Part of the Studies in Byzantine Cultural History series
Paperback / softback
Description
Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire’s ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977.
Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of understanding how emotional communities work and where the ancients’ concepts of emotion differ from our own, and Byzantinists have begun to consider emotions other than sorrow.
It is time to look at what is distinctive about Byzantine emotion. This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, these papers address issues such as power, gender, rhetoric, or asceticism in Byzantine society through the lens of a single emotion or cluster of emotions.
Contributors focus not only on the construction of emotions with respect to perception and cognition but also explore how emotions were communicated and exchanged across broad (multi)linguistic, political and social boundaries.
Priorities are twofold: to arrive at an understanding of what the Byzantines thought of as emotions and to comprehend how theory shaped their appraisal of reality. Managing Emotion in Byzantium will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in Byzantine perceptions of emotion, Byzantine Culture, and medieval perceptions of emotion.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:504 pages, 38 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2024
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- ISBN:9781032340470
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:504 pages, 38 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032340470
