Managing Emotions in the Middle Ages

Buch | Hardcover

440 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004713864 (ISBN)

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By discussing theoretical frameworks for the historical study of emotions and presenting a range of case studies from the Middle Ages, this volume illustrates how the management of emotions reflects and sheds light on the code of values and behaviour that guided medieval society.

The life experiences of men and women take on meaning through the emotionality they entail, and the intensity of these experiences build certain memories which link the individuals within a society. As such, this volume argues that examining the management of emotions in late medieval society will allow us to better understand it. By discussing theoretical frameworks for the historical study of emotions and presenting a range of case studies from the Middle Ages, the authors of this book illustrate how the management of emotions reflects and sheds light on the code of values and behaviour that guided this society.

Contributors are: Maravillas Aguiar, Iñaki Bazán, Anna Caiozzo, Carla Casagrande, Riccardo Cristiani, Vincent Debiais, Jonas Holst, Eduard Juncosa, Andrea Knox, Mauricio Molina, Miguel Ángel Motis, Josep Maria Ruiz Simon, Flocel Sabaté, Karen Stöber, William Marx, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Alberto Velasco, and Alexandra Velissariou.

Flocel Sabaté, Ph.D. (1993), Universitat de Barcelona, is Professor of Medieval History at the Universitat de Lleida and Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. He has published many books about medieval society, such as The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia (Routledge, 2020).

Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Part 1

Historiographical Thoughts

1 Human Beings as Emotional Subjects: The Study of Their Experiences in the Middle Ages

Flocel Sabaté

2 The Bodily Turn: New Directions in the History of Emotions

Barbara H. Rosenwein and Riccardo Cristiani

Part 2

How to Deal with Emotions

3 Feelings and the Saving of Souls: Penance and Prayer

Carla Casagrande

4 Emotions and Orthodoxy in Medieval Latin Devotional Writing

William Marx

5 The Art of Courtly Love as an Art of Government of Self and Others

Josep Maria Ruiz Simon

Part 3

Emotional Portraits

6 Emotions, Spirituality and Artistic Promotion of a King’s Daughter: The Will of Blanche of Aragon and Anjou (ca. 1302–1348), Prioress of the Monastery of Sigena

Alberto Velasco

7 An Emotional Portrait of Queen Violant of Bar through Her Letters

Eduard Juncosa

8 The Abbot and the Poet. Emotions in a Medieval Welsh Monastery

Karen Stöber

Part 4

Emotional Collective Experiences

9 O cur iubes canere? Composition, Performance, and the Projection of Emotions in a Medieval Latin Song

Mauricio Molina

10 Experience and its Emotional Relation to the Visual. An Epigraphic View

Vincent Debiais

11 The Portrayal of Emotions in the Medieval Orient. From Adab to Oriental Epic and Historical Narrative from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries

Anna Caiozzo

Part 5

Expressing or Using Emotions on Trial

12 Emotions in the Middle Ages as Reflected in Legal Sources. Shame, Anger, Male Identity and Female Adultery

Iñaki Bazán Díaz

13 Tears, Weeping and lacrimae. The Truth of the Eyes? Emotions and Gestures of Female Jewish Converts in Aragon on Trial under the Spanish Inquisition in the Middle Ages

Jonas Holst and Miguel Ángel Motis

Part 6

Emotional Travellers

14 Facing Hard Times. Emotion and the Expression of Self in the Autobiographical Accounts by al-Qalaṣādī and al-Ḥağarī

Maravillas Aguiar

15 Emotional Pilgrims in Jacques Le Saige’s Travel Narrative (ca. 1520–1523)

Alexandra Velissariou

16 Emotions and Marriage Negotiations. Irish Marriages in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Andrea Knox

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Later Medieval Europe ; 26
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	857 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-13	9789004713864 / 9789004713864
Zustand	Neuware