The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
General introduction
PART 1: Shaping Western identities, 1250–1500
	Introduction
	1. Culture of politics in the Middle Ages: rituals to create and confirm political order
	2. Cultures of conflict
	3. Material cultures of living: spatiality and everyday life
	4. Travel, mobility, and culture in Europe
	5. Cultural encounters and transfer: the case of pious foundations in the Islamicate world
	6. Practices of communication: literacy, gestures and words – research on late medieval communication
	7. Making sense of one’s life and the world
	8. Conceiving of medieval identities
	9. Body, sexuality, and health
	10. Contextualizing late medieval emot
PART 2: Europe meets the globe: Western identities in question, 1500–1750
	Introduction
	11. God’s green garden: interactions between humans and the environment
	12. Material cultures of living: European attitudes to novelties
	13. Reverence, shame and guilt in early modern European cultures
	14. Making sense of the world: the creation and transfer of knowledge
	15. The self: representations and practices
	16. The experience of time
	17. Written communication in urban spaces: publication, textual materiality and appropriations
	18. Mobility, global interaction and cultural transfers in the age of exploration
	19. Faces of power and conflict
PART 3: The Western world and the global challenge, from 1750 to the present
	Introduction
	20. Enlightenment, revolution, and melancholy
	21. Individualism and emotion in modern Western culture
	22. Health and illness, the self and the body
	23. Family, home and variations in domestic life
	24. Natural disasters and modernity
	25. Cultures of mobility
	26. The cultural life of the senses in modernity
	27. Media and mediatization
	28. Indigenous and postcolonial cultures
	29. Violence and trauma: experiencing the two World Wars
	30. The Cold War cultures and beyond
	31. The culture of commerce and the global economy
	32. Epilogue: cultural history in retrospect
Index of names