Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period

Discourses of Anger offers an interdisciplinary account of how different discourses generated their own version, assessment, and semantics of anger in the early modern period. It includes contributions on philosophy and theology, poetry, medicine, law, political theory, and art.

Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Munster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.Anita Traninger is Einstein Junior Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Freie Universitat Berlin. Her areas of research include the history of rhetoric and dialectics, literature and discourses of knowledge in early modern Europe, and the history and theory of literary and epistemic genres.