State of the Field

The History of Emotions

Abstract

This article reviews the current state of the history of emotion studies, first giving a brief summary of the first steps in the field and the development of what would be the history of emotion, based on the Annales School up to the present day. Some of the main authors in the field are presented, such as William Reddy, Peter Stearns, Carol Stearns and Barbara Rosenwein, their concepts, such as emotional regimes, emotional style and emotional communities, how they are and can be used in different research. Of the variety of themes and authors in the field, as well as the importance of intersectionality in the analysis of these feelings, showing the need to appropriate different areas of knowledge in the craft of the historian who wishes to enter the history of emotions. Finally, the new directions of the field are discussed, as well as the need to question the pre-established standards of the Western canon in order to advance the field.