Environment, emotion and early modernity

The latest issue of the journal Environment and History is a co-edited special issue from John Morgan (Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol), and Prof. Sasha Handley (History, University of Manchester).

In Environment, Emotion and Early Modernity, the editors bring together a group of seven scholars writing at the intersection of the histories of environment and emotion in the early modern period. The collection covers forestry and geomancy in early modern Korea, foodways and emotional communities in seventeenth-century North America, and much inbetween.

Read the collection here. Morgan and Handley’s editorial is available for free on Ingenta Connect.

Table of contents:

Editorial
Sasha Handley and John Morgan
Lusty Sack Possets, Nuptial Affections and the Material Communities of Early Modern Weddings
Sasha Handley
Foodways and Emotional Communities in Early Colonial Virginia
Rachel Winchcombe
Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea
John S. Lee
An Emotional Ecology of Pigeons in Early Modern England and America
John Emrys Morgan
Trees and Disease: The Ecology of the Roman Campagna in the Seventeenth Century
Lisa Beaven
Summer, Sun and SAD in Early Modern England
Tayler Meredith
‘The Sky in Place of The Nile’: Climate, Religious Unrest and Scapegoating in Post-Tridentine Apulia
Giovanni Tarantino