Defining and Perceiving Feelings in the Late Middle Ages

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71907-1 (ISBN)

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This book examines the language used by late medieval men and women to refer to their feelings and to examine their meanings, offering insights into their efforts to convey, use, and transmit emotions, particularly in relation to power dynamics and social values.

In order to have a constructive discussion about feelings in the late Middle Ages, it is beneficial to first evaluate how the feelings of individual men and women were defined. As such, the purpose of this book is to explore the words used by late medieval men and women to refer to their feelings and to examine their meanings. By doing so, we can better understand the efforts of late medieval society to express, use, and transmit certain feelings, especially as they related to manoeuvres of power or the articulation of social values.

Contributors are: Mechthild Albert, Jacqueline Cerquiglioni-Toulet, Frank Collard, Paola Corti Badia, Francesca Español, Isabel Grifoll, Juan Francisco Jiménez Alcázar, José Martínez Gázquez, Alicia Minguélez, Matilde Juan, Liza N. Pina-Rubio, Gerardo Rodríguez, Flocel Sabaté, Benedicte Sère, and Marta Serrano.

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

Discussing Terms about Feelings

1 To Perceive an Emotive Middle Ages

Flocel Sabaté

2 Affect or Thought? Sentement in Poetics at the End of the Middle Ages

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet

3 Friendship: Feeling, Emotions or Social Bond? The Intermittences of Historiography

Bénédicte Sère

Part 2

Defining and Placing Feelings

4 Obediensa: Troubadours, Love, and Feudalism

Isabel Grifoll

5 Anger and Power: Considerations about a Problematic Relationship in Calila y Dimna

Mechthild Albert

6 Passion and Compassion in a Manuscript of Mary of Cleves, Duchess of Orleans: Reading, Seeing and Feeling Pain in the Fifteenth Century

Paola Corti Badía

7 Amorous Feelings in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna: Representation of Medieval Sensory Physiology in a Monastic Code

Liza N. Piña-Rubio

Part 3

Expressing and Using Feelings

8 Non Minus Amicitie Quam Peritie Facultatibus Innixus: Friendship and Other Feelings in the Medieval Translators from Arabic to Latin

José Martínez Gázquez

9 Odium Capitale et Crimen Nephandum: Hatred and Poison in the Medieval West

Frank Collard

10 Dread, Terror, Fright and Panic: Fear in the Late-Medieval Iberian Peninsula

Juan-Francisco Jiménez-Alcázar and Gerardo F. Rodríguez

11 Love as an Excuse: The Tombs of Pedro and Inês at the Portuguese Monastery of Alcobaça

Alicia Miguélez

Part 4

Transmitting Feelings

12 Evocations, Contemplations, Inventions and Art: Literature and Virtue Represented in the Iberian Peninsula in the Fifteenth Century

Matilde Miquel Juan

13 Martyrdom, Death and Sensitivities at Play

Francesca Español

14 The Multisensorial Perception of the Expression of Mourning: Attitudes and Behaviours towards the Memory and Death of the Kings and Queens of Aragon

Marta Serrano

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Later Medieval Europe ; 27
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	791 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-71907-5 / 9004719075
ISBN-13	978-90-04-71907-1 / 9789004719071
Zustand	Neuware