Author Archives: Yasmin Haskell

What’s in a name? Pope Francis, the Jesuits, and the Emotions

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

Professor Yasmin Haskell is a Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800, at University of Western Australia. Her research project on Jesuit emotions explores the theory, experience and performance of emotion in the Early Modern Society … Continue reading →

Hypochondriac disease – in the mind, the guts, or the soul?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

By Yasmin Haskell (Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800 at University of Western Australia) This post was first published on The Conversation in their Medical Histories series, recounting curious stories from the history of medicine. … Continue reading →