What did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays that reframe historical understand

This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development

How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, h

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

This book offers the first full-length study of early modern contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the gold standard of English Protestan