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KARANT-NUNN, S., Reformation of Feeling. Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany. Oxford University Press, 2010. 352p. Hardback. Karant-Nunn is one of the first to take up the challenge of the 'history of emotions' and delineate the emotional cultures of Catholicism and Protestantism which have left such deep traces in our cultures right up to the present day. She shows the insidious anti-Semitism that went along with Passion sermons: the more preachers stressed Christ's suffering, the more they incited hatred of the 'Jesus killers.' By taking the feelings of anger, hatred and envy seriously, she is able to avoid the sentimentality which can come from stressing only the virtues of love and charity, and so provides the most convincing account of emotions in history that I have read. Lyndal Roper, Fellow and Tutor in History, Balliol College Oxford (Publisher's information). € 129.08 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780195399738