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The Politics of Emotion - by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez (Hardcover)

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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.
  • About the Author: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder.
  • 390 Pages
  • History, Europe

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About the Book



"Understanding the history of grief and madness in late medieval and early modern Iberia through the lives of three royal women who all experienced tragedy while in power"--



Book Synopsis



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.



About the Author



Nuria Silleras-Fernandez is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Chariots of Ladies and Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship and has coedited three books, including Iberian Babel.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.63 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 390
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Europe
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Theme: Medieval
Format: Hardcover
Author: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Language: English
Street Date: February 15, 2024
TCIN: 89724335
UPC: 9781501773860
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-6725
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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