Contents: Introduction: Towards histories of emotions, Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills; Is there a cultural history of the emotions?, Peter Burke; Emotions into words-or words into emotions?, Graham Richards. Emotions and Religious Belief: Bodies of self-transcendence: the spirit of affect in Giotto and Piero della Francesca, Michael Schwartz; Architecture and affetti: Alberti and edification, Helen Hills; Spiritual passion and the betrayal of painting in Georges de La Tour, Dalia Judovitz; Changing emotions? The decline of Original Sin on the eve of the Enlightenment, Michael Heyd. Emotions and the Body: The man of passion: emotion, philosophy and sexual difference, Christine Battersby; A woman weeps: Hogarth's Sigismunda (1759) and the aesthetics of excess, Marcia Pointon; Remuer l''me or plaire à l'oreille? Music, emotions and the mind-body problem in French writings of the later 18th century, Christopher Gärtner. Emotions and Discipline: Music's pathological and therapeutic effects on the body politic: Doctor John Gregory's views, Penelope Gouk; The undulating self: the rhythmic conception of music and the emotions in Anglo-American evolutionary thought, Charles Brotman; Dangerous liaisons: science, amusement, and the civilizing process, Otniel E. Dr∨ Bibliography; Index.