Following on from her recent visit to Australia, Evelyn has written a post for the Histories of Emotion blog entitled Skin Deep. It summarises changing notions of the skin in the early modern period.
The Histories of Emotion brings together a group of research associates working in the humanities in Australia, as part of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, which is based at the Universities of Western Australia, Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, and Sydney.
Individually, collectively, and collaboratively, these researchers are all working on the description, representation, and experience of emotions in pre-modern Europe, especially in the period 1100-1800.
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