Barbara H Rosenwein

Professor Emerita in History, Loyola University Chicago

Barbara H Rosenwein is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago. Her recent books include Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion (Yale University Press, 2020) and Love: A History in Five Fantasies (Polity Press, 2021).

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Written by Barbara H Rosenwein

A couple sits on a bench at the beach, embracing, with their dog beneath them and the ocean in the background.

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History of ideas

The love story story

Neither psychology nor anthropology fully understand love: only history sees that it’s all about the time and the telling

Barbara H Rosenwein