Psychology: emotions Books

Book SynopsisThe boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence – form the core of this compilation. For medieval men and women, religious rituals, magic, herbs, dietary requirements as well as to scholastic medicine were a way to cope with the vagaries of mental wellbeing; the focus of the articles is on the interaction and osmosis between lay and elite cultures as well as medical, theological and political theories and practical experiences of daily life. Time span of the volume is the later Middle Ages, c. 1300-1500. Geographically it covers Western Europe and the comparison between Mediterranean world and Northern Europe is an important constituent. Contributors are Jussi Hanska, Gerhard Jaritz, Timo Joutsivuo, Kirsi Kanerva, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Marko Lamberg, Iona McCleery, Susanna Niiranen, Sophie Oosterwijk, and Catherine Rider.Trade Review"This is an important addition to recent literature on the history of mental health, health and diet regimen, public health and disabilities in the Middle Ages. It is readable and interesting, and it would make a good addition to a course on medieval health or medieval disabilities. An advanced undergraduate would find this interesting, as would the scholar." Wendy Turner, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 2, DOI:10.1093/shm/hkv013, Accessed on: 2 May, 2015 "This wide-ranging collection of articles, edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen, will constitute a welcome addition to the bookshelves of medievalists dealing with themes of mental health and illness, or with the history of the emotions in the later medieval period... the volume succeeds both in bringing diverse scholarly approaches into a rewarding dialogue with one another and in presenting a pleasurable book to read...I enjoyed all parts of the volume and found it to be a valuable resource which I can whole-heartedly recommend. The essays enrich one another admirably when read together." Nancy Mandeville Caciola, English Historical Review cxxxii. 556 (June 2017)Table of ContentsAbbreviations … vii List of Figures … viii Acknowledgements … x Perspectives to Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe … 1 Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Susanna Niiranen How to Get a Melancholy Marquess to Sleep? Melancholy in Scholastic Medicine … 21 Timo Joutsivuo Demons and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Medicine … 47 Catherine Rider Anger as a Spiritual, Social and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Swedish Exempla … 70 Marko Lamberg Signs of Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Visual Evidence … 91 Gerhard Jaritz Demonic Possession as Physical and Mental Disturbance in the Later Medieval Canonization Processes … 108 Sari Katajala-Peltomaa “Volebam tamen ut nomen michi esset Dyonisius” – Fra Salimbene, Wine and Well-Being … 128 Jussi Hanska Mental Disorders in Remedy Collections: A Comparison of Occitan and Swedish Material … 151 Susanna Niiranen Wine, Women and Song? Diet and Regimen for Royal Well-Being (King Duarte of Portugal, 1433–1438) … 177 Iona McCleery “This Worlde Is but a Pilgrimage”: Mental Attitudes in/to the Medieval Danse Macabre … 197 Sophie Oosterwijk Disturbances of the Mind and Body: Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland … 219 Kirsi Kanerva Bibliography … 243 Index … 281

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Book SynopsisIn Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks’ writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology. Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures and Tables Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction: Historicizing Asian Community-based Emotion Practices  Barbara Schuler India 1 A House for the Nation to Remember: A Correspondence of Emotions between Jawaharlal Nehru and G. D. Birla, 1948  Padma D. Maitland 2 Food and Emotion: Can Emotions be Worked On and Altered in Material Ways?—A Short Research Note on South India  Barbara Schuler 3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments: An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)  Irina Glushkova 4 Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia  Kiyokazu Okita 5 Loving Śiva’s Liṅga: The Changing Emotional Valences of a Beloved Image in the Tamil-Speaking Śaiva Tradition  Anne E. Monius 6 Contested Emotionality, Religious Icons in Ancient India  Gérard Colas 7 Giving Gifts in Pre-Modern India: The Motivation of the Donors  Katrin Einicke China 8 Seeing Suchness: Emotional and Material Means of Perceiving Reality in Chinese Buddhist Divination Rituals  Beverley McGuire Japan 9 When Sad is Good: Affect among Friends in and out of Japanese Picturebooks  Heather Blair Index

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Book SynopsisAfter Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind explores questions of mind, emotion and the moral sense which Darwin opened up through his research on the physical expression of emotions and the human–animal relation. It also examines the extent to which Darwin’s ideas were taken up by Victorian writers and popular culture, from George Eliot to the Daily News.Trade Review"Richardson [...] has brought together a group of eminent literary critics, including Gillian Beer and David Amigoni, and high-caliber historians of the emotions [...] with leading contemporary evolutionay biologists and psychologists [...] this cross-disciplinary conjunction does raise some pertinent and highly interesting questions." – Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester), in: Victorian Studies, Volume 58, No. 2, p. 354-356. "After Darwin not only offers a fascinatingly diverse collection of ways to approach Darwin’s influential concenption of the emotions in an evolutionary framework, with contributions from experts in literature, psychology, biology and history, it also provides a rich impetus for future investigations." – Andrew Ball, University of Manchester, in Social History of Medicine 28.1 (2015) pp. 206-207 “extremely interesting and well organized collection of 11 original essays. […] no summary of these essays will sufficiently indicate their richness. […] This book shows how Darwin’s scientific theory – the product itself of deep imaginative sympathy – helped to transform our understanding of both humans and animals.” – George Levine (Rutgers University), in The George Eliot Review 45 (2014), pp. 83-85 "The book […] really intrigued me. […] I hope that [this book] somehow [finds its] way into your hands in the not too distant future. [It] really [is] that good." – Mark Bekoff (University of Colorado), in Psychology Today: Animal Emotions 12 December 2013. For the full review see: PSYCHOLOGY TODAY/ANIMAL EMOTIONS "Guided by the assumption that science and culture are at all times reciprocal, After Darwin successfully bridges the gap between science and the humanities. It also typifies the rising interest in the emotions as a field of study in their own right and is furthermore representative of Harriet Ritvo’s observation of ten years ago that ‘animals have been edging towards the academic mainstream’ (p. 8). Some chapters integrate less well into the overall agenda of the volume, but they all offer a unique way of thinking about emotions, animals and human nature, at the centre of which we ultimately find Darwin himself." – Stephanie Eichberg in: The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 48, Issue 03, September 2015, pp. 523 - 525.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Darwin and Interdisciplinarity: A Historical Perspective Angelique Richardson ‘Love and Hatred are Common to the Whole Sensitive Creation’: Animal Feeling in the Century before Darwin Jane Spencer ‘The Book of The Season’: The Conception and Reception of Darwin’s Expression Angelique Richardson The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts Gillian Beer Becoming an Animal: Darwin and the Evolution of Sympathy Paul White George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and Morals Angelique Richardson Between Medicine and Evolutionary Theory: Sympathy and Other Emotional Investments in Life Writings by and about Charles Darwin David Amigoni From Entangled Vision to Ethical Engagement: Darwin, Affect, and Contemporary Exhibition Projects Monika Pietrzak-Franger Reckoning with the Emotions: Neurological Responses to the Theory of Evolution, 1870-1930 L.S. Jacyna Darwin’s Changing Expression and the Making of the Modern State Rhodri Hayward Calling the Wild: Selection, Domestication, and Species Harriet Ritvo The Development of Emotional Life Michael Lewis Afterword: The Emotional and Moral Lives of Animals: What Darwin Would Have Said Marc Bekoff Index

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