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Katie Barclay is Professor and Future Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. She writes widely on the history of emotions, gender, and family life. With Kate De Luna and Giovanni Tarantino, she is the editor of Emotions: History, Culture, Society.What role has love played in social, political and cultural life over the centuries? How have normative values and beliefs about love affected different social groups in different cultures?
In a work spanning 2,500 years, 55 experts examine the meaning of love: what it feels like, how it should be expressed on the body and in language, its representation in art and literature, its explanation by theology and by science, and who should experience it (and towards whom). Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (500 BCE - 400 CE); 2 - Middle Ages (400 - 1400); 3 - Early Modern Age (1400 - 1700); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1700 - 1800); 5 - Age of Empire (1800 - 1900); 6 - Modern Age (1900 - present).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: romantic love; love in families; friendship; love in communities; love and the divine; love in politics; physiologies of love; and love in art and material culture.
The page extent is approximately 1,648 with up to 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and a volume editor's introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and index.
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Love is part of the Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library, updated twice a year and available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access. . See www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com for further information or to access content.
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Love in Antiquity
Edited by Marguerite Johnson, University of Queensland, Australia and Han Baltussen, University of Adelaide, Australia
Introduction, Marguerite Johnson and Han Baltussen
1. Romantic Love, Angela Hug
2. Love in Families, Hugh Lindsay
3. Friendship, Elena Heran
4. Love in Communities, Fergus King
5. Love and the Divine, Harold Tarrant
6. Love in Politics, Lowell Bowditch
7. Physiologies of Love, Giulia Sissa
8. Love in Art and Material Culture, John R. Clarke
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Love in the Middle Ages
Edited by Riccardo Cristiani, Independent Scholar, Italy and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Introduction, Barbara H. Rosenwein and Riccardo Cristiani
1. Romantic Love, Jennifer Wollock
2. Love in Families, Jacqueline Murray
3. Friendship, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
4. Love in Communities, Michael Barbezat
5. Love and the Divine, Brian Patrick McGuire
6. Love in Politics, Martial Staub
7. Physiologies of Love, Esther Cohen
8. Love in Art and Material Culture, Elina Gertsman
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Love in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Katherine Ibbett, University of Oxford, UK
Introduction, Katherine Ibbett
1. Romantic Love, Martin W. Huang
2. Love in Families, Katie Barclay
3. Friendship, Marc Schachter
4. Love in Communities, Urvashi Chakravarty
5. Love and the Divine, Constance Furey and Sonia Velázquez
6. Love in Politics, Elizabeth Reid
7. Physiologies of Love, Olivia Smith
8. Love in Material Culture, Éric Méchoulan (translator, Sam Ferguson)
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Love in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Katie Barclay, Macquarie University, Australia and Sally Holloway, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Introduction, Katie Barclay and Sally Holloway
1. Romantic Love, Clara Tuite
2. Love in Families, Joanne Begiato
3. Friendship, Kenneth Loiselle
4. Love in Communities, Jacqueline Van Gent
5. Love and the Divine, Giovanni Tarantino
6. Love in Politics, Katie Barclay
7. Physiologies of Love, Angelika C. Messner
8. Love in Art and Material Culture, Sally Holloway
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Love in the Age of Empire
Edited by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Introduction, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
1. Romantic Love, Peter Stearns
2. Love in Families, Dimitra Vassiliadou
3. Friendship, Sergio Lussana
4. Love in Communities, Carolyne Ryan
5. Love and the Divine, Angela Platt
6. Love in Politics, Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig
7. Physiologies of Love, Oliva López Sánchez
8. Love in Art and Material Culture, Angela Hesson
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Love in the Modern Age
Edited by Claire Langhamer, University of London, UK
Introduction, Claire Langhamer
1. Romantic Love, Katie Barclay
2. Love in Families, Niamh Cullen
3. Friendship, Caroline Arni and Anna Leyrer
4. Love in Communities, Jordanna Bailkin
5. Love and the Divine, David Geiringer
6. Love in Politics, Jonathan Moss and Emily Robinson
7. Physiologies of Love, Dolores Martín-Moruno
8. Love in Art and Material Culture, Louise Purbrick
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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