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Article: Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages.(Review)
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Rosenwein, Barbara H., ed. Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages Ithaca: Cornell University Press 256 pp., $16.95 paper, ISBN 0-8014-8343-3 Publication Date: January 1998
Anger's Past is a compilation of articles that began as a session at the American Historical Association in 1995 entitled "The Social Construction of Anger." Although the present volume has a similar theme, and includes some of the same papers, it has been greatly expanded to deal more thoroughly with the complex social, political, ethnic, and linguistic contexts of anger throughout the medieval period. Anger's Past itself consists of an introduction, five sections ...