Description:
Authors here investigate specific emotions, such as sadness, courage, and fear. Others turn to emotions spread throughout society by contemporary events, such as a ruler's death, the outbreak of war, or religious schism, and discuss how such emotions have widespread consequences in both social practice and theory.
Review Quotes: "Provides an engaging and extremely useful introduction to historicized explorations of the early modern passions through the lens of the creative arts."-- "Sixteenth Century Journal"