Emotions and Health, 1200-1700

Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 examines theological and medical approaches to the 'passions' as alterations affecting both mind and body. It focuses on sorrow, fear and anger, on constructions of the melancholic subject, and on the effects of music on health.

About the author

Elena Carrera, DPhil (Oxford), is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Golden Age Culture at Queen Mary, University of London, and a founder member of its Centre for the History of the Emotions. She has published on medieval and early modern emotions, mysticism and madness.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Carrera
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2013
• EAN: 9789004250826
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25082-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General