Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
History of Emotions (research)
Course Number:
L_GABAALG015
Course Description:
This is a research class designed for third year students in history, literature and arts who wish to further develop their research skills. The history of emotions is a burgeoning research field in cultural history that is highly interdisciplinary in character. Both historical, literary, social, philosophical and medical scholars investigate the role of emotions and emotional behaviour in political, social and cultural processes. One of the many questions concerns the universality of human emotional experience across cultural, social and historical boundaries. Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1200-1800) offers interesting material to investigate such questions. In this course students will acquire knowledge of concepts and methods used by various scholarly disciplines that study emotional behaviour and experience. A central and recurring theme will be the (experienced) embodiment of emotions. Where did contemporary doctors and philosophers locate emotions in the body? What cultural rules reigned the bodily expression of emotions?
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
Attachment Files:
Studyguide (10)_13.pdf
