{"product_id":"the-politics-of-emotion-love-grief-and-madness-in-medieval-and-early-modern-iberia-hardback-9781501773860","title":"The Politics of Emotion; Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Hardback) 9781501773860","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Politics of Emotion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLove, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNuria Silleras-Fernandez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501773860\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 1 map, 2 charts - 11 Halftones, black and white - 2 Charts - 1 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Emotion: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Love and Excess\/Love as Excess\u003cbr\u003e 2. Regulating Death, Grief, and Consolation\u003cbr\u003e 3. Love and Sexuality as Power: Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Castile\u003cbr\u003e 4. Contested Agency: Isabel of Portugal and Saint Beatriz da Silva\u003cbr\u003e 5. Portugal, 1491: A Princess and aKingdom in Mourning\u003cbr\u003e 6. Consoling the Princess of Portugal, or the Price of Remarriage\u003cbr\u003e 7. Juana and Isabel: The Tale of a Prodigal Daughter\u003cbr\u003e 8. Madness in the Age of Empire: Juana I, Queen of Castile\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Love and Death and the Politics of Emotion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681253454104,"sku":"9781501773860","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-politics-of-emotion-love-grief-and-madness-in-medieval-and-early-modern-iberia-hardback-9781501773860","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}