TY - JOUR
TI - Is it Possible to Die of Sadness? Emotions and Physical Health in the Annals of Jan Długosz
AU - Słaboszowska, Kalina
TI - Is it Possible to Die of Sadness? Emotions and Physical Health in the Annals of Jan Długosz
AB - The article discusses the intersection between emotions and physical health in the narration of the “Annales seu cronicae incliti regni Poloniae” by Jan Długosz (1415–1480). The research is placed within the framework of the history of emotions, a field aimed at determining how people in the past used to perceive and experience emotions. Its main scope is to find out how emotions can influence the body and health according to the medieval author. The descriptions of illnesses and deaths caused by the influence of emotions are analysed both from the point of view of the medieval medicine and approach to emotions as well as contemporary concepts of psychosomatics and Susan Sontag’s approach.
VL - 2024
IS - Tom 15 (2024)/2
PY - 2024
SN - 2081-3309
C1 - 2391-6001
SP - 135
EP - 148
DO - 10.4467/23916001HG.24.025.20452
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-historica-gedanensia/artykul/is-it-possible-to-die-of-sadness-emotions-and-physical-health-in-the-annals-of-jan-dlugosz
KW - Jan Długosz
KW - emotions
KW - the Middle Ages
KW - historiography
KW - body