Summary Emotion, Sense, Experience calls on historians of emotions and the senses to
come together in serious and sustained dialogue. The Element outlines the deep if largely …

Hope has intrigued and attracted humans for centuries, with views on this emotion ranging
from extremely positive to extremely negative. To deepen and nuance our understanding of …

Offering insights on the wide range of sources that are available from across the globe and
throughout history for the study of the history of emotions, this book provides students with a …

According to the historian of science Naomi Oreskes (2019), the validity of science rests on
the consensus of scientists from diverse backgrounds who participate in a collective give …

This chapter begins by drawing together various historical threads of the constructionist
perspective. We then review selected findings that serve as background assumptions for the …

The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has
in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines …

Happiness in World History traces ideas and experiences of happiness from early stages in
human history, to the maturation of agricultural societies and their religious and …

As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and
grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an …

Abstract Arnold Arluke and Clinton Sanders (1996) have argued that human societies index
both humans and animals as belonging to particular rungs of the social hierarchy. They term …

This article draws on recent developments in the history of emotion and the sociology of
creativity to argue that emotions themselves may be viewed as creative practices. After an …