The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states--love, melancholy, grief, and madness--with gender and...
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Author: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
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The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia by Silleras-Fernandez, Nuria

The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

BD$162.49

The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

BD$162.49
Author: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states--love, melancholy, grief, and madness--with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources--literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents--Nuria Silleras-Fernandez focuses on three royal women: Isabel of Portugal (1428-1496), queen-consort of Castile; Isabel of Aragon (1470-1498), queen-consort of Portugal; and Juana of Castile (1479-1555), queen of Castile and its empire. Each of these women was perceived by their contemporaries as having gone "mad" as a result of excessive grief, and all three were related to Isabel the Catholic (1451-1504), queen of Castile and a woman lauded in her time as a paragon of reason.

Through the lives and experiences of these royal women and the observations, judgments, and machinations of their families, entourages, and circles of writers, chronicles, courtiers, moralists, and physicians in their orbits, Silleras-Fernandez addresses critical questions about how royal women in Iberia were expected to behave, the affective standards to which they were held, and how perceptions about their emotional states influenced the way they were able to exercise power. More broadly, The Politics of Emotion details how the court cultures in medieval and early modern Castile and Portugal contributed to the development of new notions of emotional excess and mental illness.



Author: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 02/15/2024
Pages: 390
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781501773860

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