Anger's Past : : The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages / / ed. by Barbara H. Rosenwein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Althoff, Gerd,; Barton, Richard E.,; Bührer-Thierry, Geneviève,; Davies, Wendy,; Freedman, Paul,; Ghazzal, Zouhair,; Hyams, Paul,; Little, Lester K.,; Peyroux, Catherine,; Rosenwein, Barbara H.,; White, Stephen D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rosenwein, Barbara H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 10 halftones, 1 drawing, 1 table

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 univ...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I. Monks and Saints
• 1. Anger in Monastic Curses
• 2. Gertrude's furor: Reading Anger in an Early Medieval Saint's Life
• Part II. Kings and Emperors
• 3. Ira Regis: Prolegomena to a History of Royal Anger
• 4· "Just Anger" or "Vengeful Anger"? The Punishment of Blinding in the Early Medieval West
• 5. What Did Henry ill of England Think in Bed and in French about Kingship and Anger?
• Part III. Lords and Peasants
• 6. The Politics of Anger
• 7. "Zealous Anger" and the Renegotiation of Aristocratic Relationships in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France
• 8. Peasant Anger in the Late Middle Ages
• Part TV. Celts and Muslims
• 9. Anger and the Celtic Saint
• 10. From Anger on Behalf of God to "Forbearance" in Islamic Medieval Literature
• Part V. Conclusions
• 11. Controlling Paradigms
• Contributors
• Index