The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines concerned with emotion research. The history of emotions is entangled with the history of the body and brain, and with cultural and political history. It is interested in the how and why of emotion change; with the questions of power and authority behind cultural scripts of expression, conceptual usages, and emotional practices. This work has reached a level of maturity and sophistication in its theoretical and methodological orientation, and in its sheer quantity of empirical research, that it contributes to emotion knowledge within the broad framework of emotion research.

情感史已成为历史学科中的一个蓬勃发展的焦点，但是在此过程中，它获得了重要的购买，使其与涉及情感研究的其他学科相关。情感的历史与身体和大脑的历史，以及文化和政治历史纠缠在一起。它对情绪变化的方式和原因感兴趣；以及文化表达，概念用法和情感习惯背后的权力和权威问题。这项工作在理论和方法论上以及在大量的实证研究中都达到了成熟和成熟的水平，在情感研究的广泛框架内为情感知识做出了贡献。