Barbara H Rosenwein
Biographic Data
| ID | 231702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara H Rosenwein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenwein |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENWEIN B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1951-2797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Medieval Studies and the History of Emotions
Emotions
Historical studies of emotions have much to add to the lively interest in emotions today. This article problematizes the currently popular notion of "basic emotions," shows how the history of past theories offers new ways to think about the category "emotions" and the items that populate it, and offers a methodology for approaching the emotions through the lens of "emotional communities" (the groups in which people live and feel). It concludes by…
R ob B oddice . A History of Feelings
Rob Boddice’s A History of Feelings begins with two major objectives: to avoid using modern categories like emotion and to write the first history of that avoided category over the long haul, from antiquity to the present. It does not quite succeed on either count. To shun the word “emotion,” Boddice resorts to more general terms like “feeling” and “affective life” as if that solves the problem. It does not. Although he spends much time scolding …
Angers Past and Present
Thomas Dixon makes the important point that modern anger is nothing like the seemingly parallel phenomena (ira, mênis and so on) of the past. He proposes to show how different it is by employing what he calls an anatomical-genealogical approach – tracing components of the present idea of anger to their antecedents. He criticises my own work on anger as ahistorical because I use the singular term rather than the plurals that the subject demands. I…
Ruth Leys. The Ascent of Affect
Ruth Leys’s The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique is an important book that traces the rise of the prevailing scientific theory of emotions today, thoroughly debunking its very foundations. The current science of emotions is dominated by the idea of six “basic emotions”—anger, fear, happiness, sadness, disgust, and surprise—all of which are hard-wired from birth and expressed most clearly on our faces. Neuroscientists present their subject…
The Middle Ages in 50 Objects
The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. E…
Middle Ages in 50 Objects
Le genre des émotions
Les émotions sont souvent considérées comme un puissant marqueur de genre, jouant un rôle central dans les délimitations culturelles et sociales du masculin et du féminin, les hommes étant considérés comme plus rationnels et maîtrisant mieux leurs émotions que les femmes. Ce stéréotype mérite d’être dépassé en le confrontant à des représentations et à des pratiques bien plus complexes, en refusant d’opposer raison et émotion, en dénaturalisant le…
Les émotions des puritains sont-elles genrées ? (Nouvelle-Angleterre, milieu xvii)
Si les historiens ont étudié les émotions des premiers groupes protestants, dont les puritains, ils ne se sont pas demandé s’il pouvait y avoir des différences dans les émotions exprimées et ressenties par les hommes et les femmes appartenant à des congrégations puritaines. Cet article analyse une série de confessions consignées dans les années 1648-1649 par Thomas Shepard, qui était à la tête de l’église puritaine de Cambridge, dans le Massachus…
Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe
Generations of Feeling
Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their times. Focusing specifically on groups within Engl…
An Historian in the Amazon
However private they may seem, emotions depend for their meanings on the communities in which they are expressed. But if emotions are shaped by and for their communities, how can we account for emotional change? After briefly surveying how historians have (1) defined the communities in which emotions have been expressed and (2) explained how and why emotions have changed, this article turns to the community of the Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador. It…
Modernity
Emotions in History: Lost and Found by Ute Frevert is a lively introduction to some of the issues that historians must address when writing about emotions. Emotions in History notes some of the uses emotions have had in both public and private life, and it charts the changing fate of several emotions-particularly acedia, honor, and compassion-that have been either "lost" or "found" over time. Nevertheless, it suffers from a notion of modernity th…
AHR Conversation
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), and “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011). For each the process has been the same: the Editor conve…
Thinking Historically about Medieval Emotions
The recent focus on emotions in history raises numerous methodological questions. How are historians to approach texts that include emotions? This essay summarizes three dominant interpretative paradigms for interpreting medieval emotions. In the first, these emotions are seen as the uninhibited release of affect. In the second, they are viewed as well‐understood modes of communication in a society that used gesture as often as it used words. In …
The Mystical Skeleton in the Thomistic Closet
Research Article| January 01 2010 The Mystical Skeleton in the Thomistic Closet: Aquinas’s Impassibility Barbara H. Rosenwein Barbara H. Rosenwein Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (2010) 36 (2): 233–246. https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.36.2.0233 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barba…
Gender als Analysekategorie in der Emotionsforschung
The Uses of Biology
Communications
Die Urkunden Der Merowinger . Theo Kölzer , Martina Hartmann , Andrea Stieldorf
Pouvoir et passion. Communautés émotionnelles en Francie au VIIesiècle
Le pouvoir et le sacré sont des catégories commodes pour explorer les phénomènes politiques du haut Moyen Âge. Les émotions sont ici proposées comme catégorie analytique nouvelle et utile. Les paradigmes aujourd'hui anciens de l'histoire des émotions, élaborés par Johan Huizinga et Norbert Elias qui imaginaient un Moyen Âge en enfance et émotionnellement incontrôlé, ne sont plus viables. Les cognitivistes et les constructionnistes ont démontré de…
Worrying about Emotions in History
As a medievalist, I have cause to be worried about emotions in history. I do not worry about the emotions themselves: people in the past, as now, expressed joy, sorrow, anger, fear, and many other feelings; these emotions had multiple meanings then (as they do today); they had their effects on others and were manipulated in turn (as ours do and are). What medievalists - indeed, all historians who want to get their history right - must worry about…
Worrying about Emotions in History
Journal Article Worrying about Emotions in History Get access Barbara H. Rosenwein Barbara H. Rosenwein professor of history Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 107, Issue 3, June 2002, Pages 821-845, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/107.3.821 Published: 01 June 2002
Writing without fear about early medieval emotions
Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts
Social Meaning in the Monastic and Mendicant Spiritualities
SOCIAL MEANING IN THE MONASTIC AND MENDICANT SPIRITUALITIES Get access Barbara H. Rosenwein, Barbara H. Rosenwein Loyola University of ChicagoSmith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lester K. Little Lester K. Little Loyola University of ChicagoSmith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 63, Issue 1, May 1974, Pages 4–32, https://doi.or…
Thinking Historically about Medieval Emotions
The recent focus on emotions in history raises numerous methodological questions. How are historians to approach texts that include emotions? This essay summarizes three dominant interpretative paradigms for interpreting medieval emotions. In the first, these emotions are seen as the uninhibited release of affect. In the second, they are viewed as well‐understood modes of communication in a society that used gesture as often as it used words. In …
Pouvoir et passion. Communautés émotionnelles en Francie au VIIesiècle
Le pouvoir et le sacré sont des catégories commodes pour explorer les phénomènes politiques du haut Moyen Âge. Les émotions sont ici proposées comme catégorie analytique nouvelle et utile. Les paradigmes aujourd'hui anciens de l'histoire des émotions, élaborés par Johan Huizinga et Norbert Elias qui imaginaient un Moyen Âge en enfance et émotionnellement incontrôlé, ne sont plus viables. Les cognitivistes et les constructionnistes ont démontré de…
Monks and Their Enemies
St Odo's St Martin
The ideal of sanctity presented in Sulpicius Severus' Vita Martini included a repudiation of military life. Sulpicius was concerned to show that Martin was a true ‘man of power’ (potens), but this had nothing to do with the army. On the contrary, in Sulpicius' day, the potens was, in the political sphere, a decidedly civilian patron; in the religious sphere he was a miracle-worker. Six hundred years later the attributes of power were no longer th…
Writing without fear about early medieval emotions
An Historian in the Amazon
However private they may seem, emotions depend for their meanings on the communities in which they are expressed. But if emotions are shaped by and for their communities, how can we account for emotional change? After briefly surveying how historians have (1) defined the communities in which emotions have been expressed and (2) explained how and why emotions have changed, this article turns to the community of the Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador. It…
The Uses of Biology
Social Meaning in the Monastic and Mendicant Spiritualities
SOCIAL MEANING IN THE MONASTIC AND MENDICANT SPIRITUALITIES Get access Barbara H. Rosenwein, Barbara H. Rosenwein Loyola University of ChicagoSmith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lester K. Little Lester K. Little Loyola University of ChicagoSmith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 63, Issue 1, May 1974, Pages 4–32, https://doi.or…
St Odo's St Martin
The ideal of sanctity presented in Sulpicius Severus' Vita Martini included a repudiation of military life. Sulpicius was concerned to show that Martin was a true ‘man of power’ (potens), but this had nothing to do with the army. On the contrary, in Sulpicius' day, the potens was, in the political sphere, a decidedly civilian patron; in the religious sphere he was a miracle-worker. Six hundred years later the attributes of power were no longer th…
Mönche am Bodensee, 610-1525 . Arno Borst
Pierre le Vénérable et sa vision du Monde
Monks and Their Enemies
The Transformation of the Year One Thousand
The Family Politics of Berengar I, King of Italy (888-924)
Anger's Past
Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in the Middle Ages. Well aware of modern theories about the nature of anger, the authors consider the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants. They are careful to distinguish between…
Negotiating Space
Journal Article Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe Get access Rosenwein Barbara H., Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xxii, 267 pp. $18.95 (paper). Edward Peters Edward Peters University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Lega…
Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts
Writing without fear about early medieval emotions
Worrying about Emotions in History
As a medievalist, I have cause to be worried about emotions in history. I do not worry about the emotions themselves: people in the past, as now, expressed joy, sorrow, anger, fear, and many other feelings; these emotions had multiple meanings then (as they do today); they had their effects on others and were manipulated in turn (as ours do and are). What medievalists - indeed, all historians who want to get their history right - must worry about…
Worrying about Emotions in History
Journal Article Worrying about Emotions in History Get access Barbara H. Rosenwein Barbara H. Rosenwein professor of history Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 107, Issue 3, June 2002, Pages 821-845, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/107.3.821 Published: 01 June 2002
Die Urkunden Der Merowinger . Theo Kölzer , Martina Hartmann , Andrea Stieldorf
Pouvoir et passion. Communautés émotionnelles en Francie au VIIesiècle
Le pouvoir et le sacré sont des catégories commodes pour explorer les phénomènes politiques du haut Moyen Âge. Les émotions sont ici proposées comme catégorie analytique nouvelle et utile. Les paradigmes aujourd'hui anciens de l'histoire des émotions, élaborés par Johan Huizinga et Norbert Elias qui imaginaient un Moyen Âge en enfance et émotionnellement incontrôlé, ne sont plus viables. Les cognitivistes et les constructionnistes ont démontré de…
The Uses of Biology
Communications
Gender als Analysekategorie in der Emotionsforschung
Thinking Historically about Medieval Emotions
The recent focus on emotions in history raises numerous methodological questions. How are historians to approach texts that include emotions? This essay summarizes three dominant interpretative paradigms for interpreting medieval emotions. In the first, these emotions are seen as the uninhibited release of affect. In the second, they are viewed as well‐understood modes of communication in a society that used gesture as often as it used words. In …
The Mystical Skeleton in the Thomistic Closet
Research Article| January 01 2010 The Mystical Skeleton in the Thomistic Closet: Aquinas’s Impassibility Barbara H. Rosenwein Barbara H. Rosenwein Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (2010) 36 (2): 233–246. https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.36.2.0233 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barba…
AHR Conversation
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), and “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011). For each the process has been the same: the Editor conve…
Modernity
Emotions in History: Lost and Found by Ute Frevert is a lively introduction to some of the issues that historians must address when writing about emotions. Emotions in History notes some of the uses emotions have had in both public and private life, and it charts the changing fate of several emotions-particularly acedia, honor, and compassion-that have been either "lost" or "found" over time. Nevertheless, it suffers from a notion of modernity th…
Generations of Feeling
Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their times. Focusing specifically on groups within Engl…
An Historian in the Amazon
However private they may seem, emotions depend for their meanings on the communities in which they are expressed. But if emotions are shaped by and for their communities, how can we account for emotional change? After briefly surveying how historians have (1) defined the communities in which emotions have been expressed and (2) explained how and why emotions have changed, this article turns to the community of the Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador. It…
Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe
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