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Juanita Ruys: A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age (The Cultural Histories Series) [2022] paperback ZCGIF I loved meeting all theseOur period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their acceptance as a means towards devotion. In religion, we