This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of emotions, looking to its
theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some of the notable scholarship in the …

According to the poet Seamus Heaney, putting feelings into words is“a search for images
and symbols adequate to our predicament”(Feeling into Words, Preoccupations). Of course …

This chapter offers a global overview of how the relation between language and emotion
has been a subject of study in the history of Western linguistics, from Greek antiquity to date …

Emotion research that attends to the cultural dynamics of affective life remains
underdeveloped. I outline an agenda for an understudied phenomenon that can orient …

Conceptual history is a useful tool for writing the history of emotions. The investigation of
how a community used emotion words at certain times and in certain places allows us to …

After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the
victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. With the threat of war and …

The number of studies investigating music processing in the human brain continues to
increase, with a large proportion of them focussing on the correlates of so‐called musical …

Based on the records of a murder trial that transfixed all of Italy in the late 1870s, this study
makes use of a dramatic court case to develop a new paradigm for the history of emotions …

Based on the chance survival of a remarkable cache of documents, India and the Islamic
Heartlands recaptures a vanished and forgotten world from the eighteenth century spanning …

The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and
wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of …