Elena Carrera
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Carrera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Carrera |
| SIGNATURE | CARRERA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3655-1130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Boredom
This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years. It also analyzes visual and textual material from France, Germany, Britain, Argentina and Spain, which illustrates the kinds of social situations, people and interactions tha…
T. Dodman, What Nostalgia Was
El miedo intersubjetivo en la autobiografía de Teresa de Ávila
This article offers an analysis of fear of the devil and fear of hell in sixteenth-century Spain, based on the autobiographical testimony of Teresa of Avila and on influential guides on meditation like those of Ludolph of Saxony, Ignatius of Loyola and Louis of Granada. After reviewing the various existing methodological approaches to the history of the emotions, the article emphasizes the importance of the material, institutional and cultural ne…
El miedo en la historia
Los escasos estudios existentes sobre el miedo durante la Primera Guerra Mundial ponen el énfasis en el cambio diacrónico y no cruzan barreras lingüísticas o culturales. Por el contrario, el presente artículo analiza la representación del miedo en diversos tipos de documentos redactados en inglés, francés y alemán: cartas y diarios escritos desde el frente en 1914-18, textos autobiográficos de las dos décadas siguientes, y artículos y ensayos de …
Embodied Cognition and Empathy in Miguel de Cervantes's El celoso extremeño
This article examines the portrayal of cognitive experience in the published version of Miguel de Cervantes’s short story El celoso extremeño (1613), drawing both on recent studies of empathy and current debates about the inseparability of cognition and emotion. It considers how cognitive experience is marked by particular bodily sensations and shaped by internal representations (i.e., mental images) that are closely tied to emotions such as fear…
Understanding Mental Disturbance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
The critical emphasis placed on the Renaissance as the ‘Golden Age of melancholy’ (pace Starobinski) might explain Midelfort's claim that during this period a ‘powerful new set of metaphors’ became
Madness and Melancholy in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
This collection of articles proposes new ways of looking at the fascinating question of what it meant to be mad or melancholic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. It looks at madness and m
The She-Apostle
Journal Article The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal Get access The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal, by Glyn Redworth (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2008; pp. 276. £16.99). Elena Carrera Elena Carrera Queen Mary, University of London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 511, Decemb…
El respeto a las normas de tránsito en la cuidad de Santa Fe, Argentina
An observational, descriptive study was conducted to evaluate compliance with certain traffic regulations in city of Santa Fe, Argentina, and compare these with measurements taken in prior years. During January 2-4, 2006, at 13 sites across the city, compliance with the following traffic rules was measured: for car drivers: seat belt use and restricting minors to the rear seat; and for motorcycle drivers: helmet use and not carrying a minor on bo…
Pasión and afección in Teresa of Avila and Francisco de Osuna
In Teresa la Santa, Americo Castro spoke of St Teresa as a ‘feminine soul’, and her writings as a mixture of thought, emotion and fantasy.1 The ‘femininity’ which emerges from her writings has sinc
La hermenéutica de la paranoia en El columpio , de Cristina Fernández Cubas
The Emotions in Sixteenth‐Century Spanish Spirituality
This article examines discourses on emotion produced and circulated in the context of spiritual reform in sixteenth‐century Spain as teleological methods of self‐interpretation which nonetheless stressed the individuals’ responsibility in actively recognising, displaying, and directing their emotions to a spiritual purpose. Paying particular attention to key devotional books such as Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises , Francisco de Osuna's …
Selective vs. mass treatment with antihelminthic drugs
Only repeated and massive treatment significantly lowered the prevalence and intensity of A. lumbricoides infections during the study period
Practising Places
"Practising Places: St Teresa, Lazarillo and the Early Modern City." Hispanic Research Journal, 3(3), pp. 290–291
Practising Places
Practising Places: St Teresa, Lazarillo and the Early Modern City." Hispanic Research Journal, 3(3), pp. 290–291
Boredom
This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years. It also analyzes visual and textual material from France, Germany, Britain, Argentina and Spain, which illustrates the kinds of social situations, people and interactions tha…
Understanding Mental Disturbance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
The critical emphasis placed on the Renaissance as the ‘Golden Age of melancholy’ (pace Starobinski) might explain Midelfort's claim that during this period a ‘powerful new set of metaphors’ became
The She-Apostle
Journal Article The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal Get access The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal, by Glyn Redworth (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2008; pp. 276. £16.99). Elena Carrera Elena Carrera Queen Mary, University of London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 511, Decemb…
Madness and Melancholy in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
This collection of articles proposes new ways of looking at the fascinating question of what it meant to be mad or melancholic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. It looks at madness and m
The Emotions in Sixteenth‐Century Spanish Spirituality
This article examines discourses on emotion produced and circulated in the context of spiritual reform in sixteenth‐century Spain as teleological methods of self‐interpretation which nonetheless stressed the individuals’ responsibility in actively recognising, displaying, and directing their emotions to a spiritual purpose. Paying particular attention to key devotional books such as Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises , Francisco de Osuna's …
Practising Places
"Practising Places: St Teresa, Lazarillo and the Early Modern City." Hispanic Research Journal, 3(3), pp. 290–291
Practising Places
Practising Places: St Teresa, Lazarillo and the Early Modern City." Hispanic Research Journal, 3(3), pp. 290–291
Selective vs. mass treatment with antihelminthic drugs
Only repeated and massive treatment significantly lowered the prevalence and intensity of A. lumbricoides infections during the study period
El respeto a las normas de tránsito en la cuidad de Santa Fe, Argentina
An observational, descriptive study was conducted to evaluate compliance with certain traffic regulations in city of Santa Fe, Argentina, and compare these with measurements taken in prior years. During January 2-4, 2006, at 13 sites across the city, compliance with the following traffic rules was measured: for car drivers: seat belt use and restricting minors to the rear seat; and for motorcycle drivers: helmet use and not carrying a minor on bo…
Pasión and afección in Teresa of Avila and Francisco de Osuna
In Teresa la Santa, Americo Castro spoke of St Teresa as a ‘feminine soul’, and her writings as a mixture of thought, emotion and fantasy.1 The ‘femininity’ which emerges from her writings has sinc
La hermenéutica de la paranoia en El columpio , de Cristina Fernández Cubas
The Emotions in Sixteenth‐Century Spanish Spirituality
This article examines discourses on emotion produced and circulated in the context of spiritual reform in sixteenth‐century Spain as teleological methods of self‐interpretation which nonetheless stressed the individuals’ responsibility in actively recognising, displaying, and directing their emotions to a spiritual purpose. Paying particular attention to key devotional books such as Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises , Francisco de Osuna's …
The She-Apostle
Journal Article The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal Get access The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal, by Glyn Redworth (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2008; pp. 276. £16.99). Elena Carrera Elena Carrera Queen Mary, University of London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 511, Decemb…
Understanding Mental Disturbance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
The critical emphasis placed on the Renaissance as the ‘Golden Age of melancholy’ (pace Starobinski) might explain Midelfort's claim that during this period a ‘powerful new set of metaphors’ became
Madness and Melancholy in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
This collection of articles proposes new ways of looking at the fascinating question of what it meant to be mad or melancholic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. It looks at madness and m
Embodied Cognition and Empathy in Miguel de Cervantes's El celoso extremeño
This article examines the portrayal of cognitive experience in the published version of Miguel de Cervantes’s short story El celoso extremeño (1613), drawing both on recent studies of empathy and current debates about the inseparability of cognition and emotion. It considers how cognitive experience is marked by particular bodily sensations and shaped by internal representations (i.e., mental images) that are closely tied to emotions such as fear…
El miedo en la historia
Los escasos estudios existentes sobre el miedo durante la Primera Guerra Mundial ponen el énfasis en el cambio diacrónico y no cruzan barreras lingüísticas o culturales. Por el contrario, el presente artículo analiza la representación del miedo en diversos tipos de documentos redactados en inglés, francés y alemán: cartas y diarios escritos desde el frente en 1914-18, textos autobiográficos de las dos décadas siguientes, y artículos y ensayos de …
El miedo intersubjetivo en la autobiografía de Teresa de Ávila
This article offers an analysis of fear of the devil and fear of hell in sixteenth-century Spain, based on the autobiographical testimony of Teresa of Avila and on influential guides on meditation like those of Ludolph of Saxony, Ignatius of Loyola and Louis of Granada. After reviewing the various existing methodological approaches to the history of the emotions, the article emphasizes the importance of the material, institutional and cultural ne…
T. Dodman, What Nostalgia Was
Boredom
This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years. It also analyzes visual and textual material from France, Germany, Britain, Argentina and Spain, which illustrates the kinds of social situations, people and interactions tha…
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