Katie Barclay Livres

Through an extensive analysis of correspondence among over one hundred elite Scottish couples from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the book examines the evolution of emotional intimacy, love, and friendship in marriage amid societal changes. While patriarchy remained dominant, women carved out spaces of influence within the family, though this did not extend beyond the household. By comparing Scotland's experience with that of Europe and North America, the author highlights how Scottish concepts of gender and marriage gained cultural prominence in the eighteenth century.

Exploring the intersection of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland, this book delves into how gender shapes legal and social dynamics. By integrating contemporary theories from emotion history, performativity, and gender studies, it presents gender as a vital force influencing power structures. The work offers a groundbreaking perspective on the historical context of masculinity, revealing its impact on societal norms and legal frameworks during this period.

This student guide introduces the key concepts, theories and approaches to the history of emotions while teaching readers how to apply these ideas to historical source material.

Drawing on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics, this Element explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower.

This Element explores the historical art meme as a key cultural form that offers insight into contemporary online emotional cultures and the ways that historical emotions enable and inform the practices of such culture.

Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships. -- .

The heart is an iconic symbol in the medieval and early modern European world. In addition to being a physical organ, it is a key conceptual device related to emotions, cognition, the self and identity, and the body. The heart is read as a metaphor for human desire and will, and situated in opposition to or alongside reason and cognition. In medieval and early modern Europe, the "feeling heart" - the heart as the site of emotion and emotional practices - informed a broad range of art, literature, music, heraldry, medical texts, and devotional and ritual practices. This multidisciplinary collection brings together art historians, literary scholars, historians, theologians, and musicologists to highlight the range of meanings attached to the symbol of the heart, the relationship between physical and metaphorical representations of the heart, and the uses of the heart in the production of identities and communities in medieval and early modern Europe.