B. Rosenwein

Publications111
h-index17
Citations1,601
Highly Influential Citations19
Claim Author Page
Author pages are created from data sourced from our academic publisher partnerships and public sources.

Recommended Authors

  • W. Reddy
  • 68 Publications, 1,596 Citations
  • U. Frevert
  • 393 Publications, 6,599 Citations
  • P. Ekman
  • 280 Publications, 75,183 Citations
  • G. Althoff
  • 111 Publications, 587 Citations
  • Publications
  • Influence
Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages
Proposing that people lived (and live) in "emotional communities"-each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression-Barbara H. Rosenwein here discusses some instances from… Expand
  • 324
  • 8
Worrying about emotions in history.
  • B. Rosenwein
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • The American historical review
  • 1 June 2002
As a medievalist, I have cause to be worried about emotions in history. I do not worry about the emotions themselves: people in the past, as now, expressed joy, sorrow, anger, fear, and many other… Expand
  • 380
  • 7
  • PDF
Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600-1700
Introduction 1. Ancient theories 2. Attachment and detachment 3. Alcuin's therapy 4. Love and treachery 5. Thomas' passions 6. Theatricality and sobriety 7. Gerson's music 8. Despair and happiness 9.… Expand
  • 28
  • 1
Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100–1250 . By Walter L. Wakefield Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. 295pp. $14.50.
  • 6
  • 1
An Historian in the Amazon
However private they may seem, emotions depend for their meanings on the communities in which they are expressed. But if emotions are shaped by and for their communities, how can we account for… Expand
  • 1
  • 1
Writing without fear about early medieval emotions
For a long time even the political history of the early Middle Ages was belittled. In my Western Civilization class in college, my professor had us read about the Germans invading Rome, then skipped… Expand
  • 21
  • 1
  • PDF
The Sorrows of Friendship
  • 1
AHR Conversation: The Historical Study of Emotions
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence”… Expand
  • 69
Comptes rendus - Anger's past. The social uses of an emotion in the Middle Ages
  • 83
Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages
  • 143