The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of the Emotions is part of The Cultural Histories Series. It will be essential reading for anyone researching or studying the emotions. In Public: Collectivities and Polities A Cultural History of the Emotions is the first comprehensive, period by period overview of this fascinating topic, from antiquity to the present day. In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community 8. The same eight themes are addressed in all six volumes: 1. Each volume in the series encompasses interdisciplinary work on the emotions, covering the medical, scientific, religious and intellectual history, how they have been performed and represented and how they were enacted in social practices on both a personal and public level. This collection shows how emotions can offer a unique insight into the historical thought and function of different societies. Emotions underpin our everyday lives and shape our mental, physical and social well-being. Across six volumes, A Cultural History of the Emotions explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, but also how emotions have themselves created and changed history.
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