The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press
Emotions in History - Lost and Found
1st Edition
By Ute Frevert
September 15, 2011
Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything neuro. On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since emotional intelligence emerged as a...
Emotion and Devotion: The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
1st Edition
By Miri Rubin
March 10, 2009
In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, ...
Measuring Time, Making History
1st Edition
By Lynn Hunt
January 10, 2008
Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of modernity as a new epoch in human history....