Making sense of romantic jealousy in late 18th-century Sweden – the experiences of Pehr Stenberg

Focusing on the life description of clergyman Pehr Stenberg, this article examines internal processing romantic jealousy in a late 18th-century Swedish context. During his lifetime, Stenberg wrote vast with intent documenting innermost thoughts and feelings. In account, that plagued during second marriage is described intimate detail. Using extensive complex account to conduct micro-historical exploration jealousy, displays as an entangled emotion by examining its relationship key contemporary beliefs, ideals, well other emotions. Consequently, relation love marriage, honour, psychological physical pathology religion examined. Although comprising single manages display multidimensional nature very historically specific ways which we explain process our emotional experiences.