The History of Emotion: Were feelings always felt this way?

If you hit your finger with a hammer, would you feel it the same way a medieval carpenter did, doing exactly the same thing? Well, apparently not. We think of our feelings as the most private and immediate things we own. Hit your thumb, and YOU know pain when YOU feel it. But historians of emotion say that's a modern conceit. Pain, grief, love, loneliness — none of them are fixed. They're made, by…