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EMOTIONS AND HEALTH, 1200-1700Edited by Elena CarreraSMRT, 168Leiden/Boston: BRILL, 2013ISBN 9789004250826CONTRBUTORS: Nicole Archambeau, Elena Carrera, Penelope Gouk, Angus Gowland, Nicholas E. Lombardo, William F. MacLehose, Michael R. Solomon andErin Sullivan.For all interested in the history of the emotions, medicalhistory,  medieval and early modern European cultural history, historyof psychology, and the history of ideas and popular beliefs:Emotions and Health, 1200-1700 examines theological and medicalapproaches to the ‘passions’ as alterations affecting both mind andbody. It focuses on sorrow, fear and anger, on constructions of themelancholic subject, and on the effects of music on health.For more information see brill.com/emotions-and-health-1200-1700From Table of Contents:IntroductionElena CarreraChapter One. Emotions and Psychological Health in AquinasNicholas LombardoChapter Two. Tempted to Kill: Miraculous Consolation for a Motherafter the Death of her Infant DaughterNicole ArchambeauChapter Three. Fear, Fantasy and Sleep in Medieval MedicineWilliam MacLehoseChapter Four. Anger and the Mind-Body Connection in Medieval and EarlyModern MedicineElena CarreraChapter Five. Non-Natural Love: Coitus, Desire, and Hygiene inMedieval and Early Modern SpainMichael R. SolomonChapter Six. A Disease unto Death: Sadness in the Time of ShakespeareErin SullivanChapter Seven. Medicine, Psychology, and the Melancholic Subject inthe RenaissanceAngus GowlandChapter Eight. Music and Spirit in Early Modern ThoughtPenelope GoukElena CarreraCentre for the History of the EmotionsQueen Mary, University of Londone.carrera@qmul.ac.uk