{"product_id":"the-politics-of-emotion-love-grief-and-madness-in-medieval-and-early-modern-iberia-hardcover","title":"The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNuria Silleras-Fernandez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNuria Silleras-Fernandez is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eChariots of Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePower, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship\u003c\/i\u003e and has coedited three books, including\u003ci\u003e Iberian Babel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 390\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776840106272,"sku":"9781501773860","price":125.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/efc4417f10eebd0eec8c6c57e0516bfe.webp?v=1780487392","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-politics-of-emotion-love-grief-and-madness-in-medieval-and-early-modern-iberia-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}