Before Emotion The Language Of Feeling 4001800 Routledge Studies In Medieval Literature And Culture 1st Edition Juanita Feros Ruys by Juanita Feros Ruys, Michael W. Champion, Kirk Essary 9780367086022, 9780429023279, 0367086026, 0429023278 instant download after payment.

Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period. Focusing specifically on the premodern cognates of 'affect' or 'affection' (such as affectus, affectio, affeccioun, etc.), an international team of scholars explores the cultural and intellectual contexts in which emotion was discussed before the term 'emotion' itself came into widespread use. By tracing the history of key terms and concepts associated with what we identify as 'emotions' today, the volume offers a first-time critical foundation for understanding pre- and early modern emotions discourse, charts continuities and changes across cultures, time periods, genres, and languages, and helps contextualize modern shifts in the understanding of emotions.