From the History of Emotions to the History of Experience

Moscoso, Javier

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“…“Experience” is another viable contender to replace emotion, as historians Juan Manuel Zaragoza Bernal and Javier Moscoso suggest here (Zaragoza Bernal, 2021; Moscoso, 2021), a suggestion made by other historians of emotion (Boddice & Smith, 2020; Moscoso, 2016). 1 Zaragoza Bernal reminds us, however, that “experience” is also open to interpretation, and has a complex historiography.…”

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Introduction to the special section on the history of emotions.

Lanzoni

2021

History of Psychology

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In 1872, George Eliot asked readers of Middlemarch to consider how "red cloth and epaulets" played a role in Rosamund Vincy's romantic interest in the country doctor Tertius Lydgate. The passions, Eliot explained, did not reside in interior spaces: "Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers, but dressed in their small wardrobes of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite" (Eliot, 2015, p. 159). For Eliot, the passions are materially embodied, operate almost of their own accord, and, far from being confined within minds and bodies, circulate in the social arena. Her depiction of the passions is akin to the social and cultural frames of analysis at play in today's wide-ranging field of the history of the emotions-which draws from psychology and neuroscience, cultural and social history, as well as from the history of science. In this series of stimulating reflective essays, prominent scholars of emotion and its history address the challenges and rewards of interdisciplinarity, recent work in the field, and the many conceptions of "emotion"-a polyvocality that presents limitations as well as opportunities.Historians over the past decades have painstakingly documented the ever-changing terms associated with emotions, including the passions, appetites, affects, and sentiments, along with their accompanying religious and psychological meanings (Dixon, 2003;Rosenwein, 2006Rosenwein, , 2016. Cultural and social historians have calibrated emotion according to broad social trends, as well as among subsets of interlocutors in smaller emotional communities. In her contribution to this special section, medieval historian Barbara Rosenwein writes, "It is closer to the truth to think of cultures as containing a variety of emotional communities" (Rosenwein, 2021, p. 108). To understand the emotion of love in the troubadour community of 13th century Toulouse, for instance, she asks us to scrutinize the use of a vocabulary of words associated with the heart. The rich and varied expressions of emotion in literature, personal essays, everyday discourse, social media posts, letters, journals, and all manner of archival material, have formed conduits for historians to capture the changing nuances of emotion in a variety of communities in diverse historical and cultural settings.Just as George Eliot's red cloth and epaulets intimate rank and embody reverence and romantic interest, historian Katie Barclay suggests in her essay that emotion Editor's Note. This is an introduction to the special section "The History of Emotions." Please see the Table of Contents here:

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Introduction to the special section on the history of emotions.

Lanzoni

2021

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“…Sin embargo, las investigaciones llevadas a cabo desde diversos campos de estudio, entre ellos, la antropología, la psicología, la sociología, o la historia de la cultura, han puesto de manifiesto que, si se parte del conocimiento y experiencia actuales, se observa que el ser humano, dependiendo de sus creencias y circunstancias, los experimenta y percibe de modo diverso. Asimismo, se ha sostenido que los sentimientos y las emociones no deben entenderse como un mero proceso fisiológico 'individual', sino como un intercambio entre el individuo y el grupo al que pertenece, y pueden comprenderse, porque tanto uno como los otros comparten el mismo repertorio cultural, lo que les permite reconocerse y comunicarse juntos (Le Breton 1998y 2012, Bourke 2005, Rodríguez Salazar 2008, Plamper 2014, Bourdin 2016, Moscoso 2016, y Rosenwein 2020. De modo que, tomando como referente las experiencias coetáneas, personales o ajenas, ya sean intra o extra-culturales, puede ser dable realizar un acercamiento al modo de expresión y percepción de los sentimientos y emociones en un período anterior, como, por ejemplo, el Medievo (Knuuttila 2004, Moya C. 2007, Boddice 2018y 2019, Pinedo Cantillo y Yáñez Canal 2019 3 .…”

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Miedo, dolor, enfermedad y muerte en la literatura artúrica castellana: algunas consideraciones sobre los sentimientos y las emociones

Martín¹

2023

Pasado, Presente Y Futuro Del Hispanismo en El Mundo

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1 . Las almas están preparadas, pues ya han asistido a misa. La comida se retrasa, ya que el rey espera una aventura, como acostumbra («e por esto me conviene que tardemos un poco, ca bien sé verdaderamente, que nuestra fiesta non fincará sin aventura», 23 a ) 2 . De repente, la mirada de muchos de los caballeros presentes se dirige hacia la figura de un caballero ensimismado («un gran cavallero que era natural de Irlanda, e muy fidalgo, e buen cavallero de armas e de gran nombradía. E el cavallero estava muy bien vestido, e stava pensando tanto que ninguno no lo podría acordar de su pensar», 23 a ). Súbitamente, grita y se lamenta:-¡Ay, cativo! ¡Muerto só! Y dexose caer de la finestra e quebrose el pescueço; y los cavalleros que ý estavan fueron a él por ver qué era aquello, e fallaron que le salía por la boca e por las narizes tan gran llama de fuego, como podría salir por boca de un forno que fuesse bien encendido, e tenía unas

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“…The history of experience would be the study of those processes through which we are capable (individually or collectively) of providing meaning to specific fragments of the flow of life, to use James’ metaphor. In other words, we should write the histories of the different (historically situated) forms conferred to mere experience to make an experience (Moscoso, 2016). This way of making history—open, fragmented, complex, which moves between long and short periods of time, which seeks to be comparative even while knowing that the comparison is, more often than not, impossible, nomadic—also requires new forms of writing (Nawrotzki & Dougherty, 2013).…”

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A change of pace: The history of (emotional) experiences.

Bernal¹

2021

History of Psychology

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In this article, I present some of the most interesting attempts to go beyond the natural kinds approach to emotions, paying special attention to the work of Fay Bound Alberti and Rob Boddice, both of whom have been influenced by Lisa Feldman Barrett's theory of constructed emotions. I propose that some of the flaws detected in the history of the emotions by Bound Alberti and Boddice can be solved relying on social psychology, and specifically I propose Larissa Z. Tiedens and Colin W. Leach's (2004) The Social Life of Emotions as a useful approach. In conjunction with Barrett's theory, Tiedens and Leach provide a framework in which history of the emotions can harness its full potential, encompassing a more comprehensive approach to emotional experience. I discuss the idea of a new history of emotional experiences and suggest some of its possible features. I make a plea for a collaborative, transdisciplinary approach to the study of the emotions, in which humanities and social sciences play a fundamental role.

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From the History of Emotions to the History of Experience

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Introduction to the special section on the history of emotions.

Introduction to the special section on the history of emotions.

Miedo, dolor, enfermedad y muerte en la literatura artúrica castellana: algunas consideraciones sobre los sentimientos y las emociones

A change of pace: The history of (emotional) experiences.

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