Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages

by Barbara H. Rosenwein

Book Overview

"With this book Barbara Rosenwein has made the emotions an essential component of our approach to the changing social history."
― Jacques Le Goff

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474167
• ISBN13: 9780801474163
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"