The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501773860
• ISBN13: 9781501773860
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"