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The Politics of Emotion - Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
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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, judgements,
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.
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Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
390 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-7386-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-5017-7386-0 |
Barcode: |
9781501773860 |
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