My last post talking about history writing and emotions raised responses from Bavardess both in the comments and on her own blog. I will try and deal … more
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emotions
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Emotional engagement and historians’ values
@ 2009-11-21 – 17:42:50
[ ... ] audience’s emotions is a more basic one: this is the way that propagandists have repeatedly written history. Particular as a historian living in ... more -
Medieval attitudes and mental exercises
@ 2009-08-26 – 13:08:49
[ ... ] and modern emotions. He comments (p 55): ‘Many of our judgments about quantities of violence might turn out really to be judgments about ... more -
Birkbeck 2: what is masculinity?
@ 2008-05-20 – 10:12:30
[ ... ] in the way of emotions beyond the conventional). What all this means is that the study of medieval masculinity is inevitably going to be the study ... more -
IMC reflections (3): Envy and community
@ 2007-07-27 – 08:39:20
While I always find the International Medieval Congress fascinating, it’s also a gruelling event. Partly, that’s just the intellectual and physical pace … more -
Masculinity, subjectivity and psychohistory
@ 2006-05-03 – 22:09:35
Having just been reading John MacInnes’ claim that too many scholars see masculinity as a characteristic of men, rather than as an ideology or a fantasy, … more -
Medieval honour and emotions
@ 2005-08-25 – 09:04:21
[ ... ] masculinity: emotions, honour and violence. I need to think about gendered honour in the Carolingian world, but it’s such a slippery concept, ... more -
Emotions medieval and modern
@ 2005-06-12 – 09:36:56
The last seminar of the term was a very good one: Barbara Rosenwein on ‘Merovingian passions’. She’s been working on the history of the emotions for … more
