The Emotional Expression of Authority and Power in the Middle Ages

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71908-8 (ISBN)

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In the Middle Ages, authority and power were linked to emotional expressions. This book, through specific cases, analyses emotional strategies used in the game of power and the emotive models employed to rule society, deal with conflicts, and build authority.

The relationship between rulers and their subjects is always channelled by emotion. This volume explores the specific tones this relationship took on in the Middle Ages, as well as their accordance with a concept of power based ultimately on agreement, an inclination to visualise emotions, a social pedagogy based on fear, and a religious ideology which placed humanity between divine order and divine wrath. It also examines the emotive models used to rule society and deal with conflicts. Together, the contributions in this book demonstrate how our understanding of late medieval society can be enhanced by recognising the emotional strategies present in the game of power and how they were used to build authority.

Contributors are: Alexandru Stefan Anca, Attila Bárány, Ulrike Becker, Luciano Gallinari, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Vinni Lucherini, Esther Martí Sentañés, Francesc Massip, Rob Meens, Tamás Olbei, Bernard Ribémont, Flocel Sabaté, and Hans-Joachim Schmidt.

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

Flocel Sabaté

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Medieval History, Power and Emotions

Flocel Sabaté

Part 1

Building Authority

2 The Expression of Power in Chanson de Geste in French (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)

Bernard Ribémont

3 Nose-Cutting in Calila e Dimna: A Passionate Outburst or Manifestation of Power? Some Transcultural Aspects

Ulrike Becker

4 Love in the Family: Fear in the State – Concepts of John Duns Scotus on Power and Emotions

Hans-Joachim Schmidt

Part 2

Emotive Models to Rule Society

5 Sensing the Devil – Creating the Sacred? Sensory Elements of Demonic Possession in Canonisation Processes (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa

6 When the King Shed Tears: Political Behaviour in the Crown of Aragon

Alexandru Ștefan Anca

7 Dynamic Gestures and Static Expressions in the Angevin Chronicle of the Kings of Hungary

Vinni Lucherini

Part 3

Dealing with Conflicts

8 Galbert’s Anxiety? The Church of St. Donatian and the Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders (1127)

Rob Meens

9 Memories of a Forgotten Crusade

Tamás Ölbei

10 Responses to the Ottoman Military Threat in Late Fourteenth-Century Hungary

Attila Bárány

Part 4

Emotional Strategies on the Play of Power

11 Feelings and Political Discourses in the Giudicati of Sardinia (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries)

Luciano Gallinari

12 The City and the King: Emotions and Institutional Life in Fifteenth-Century Lleida

Esther Martí Sentañés

13 The Gestures of Power in the Crown of Aragon: The Use of the Spectacle

Francesc Massip

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Later Medieval Europe ; 28
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	627 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-71908-3 / 9004719083
ISBN-13	978-90-04-71908-8 / 9789004719088
Zustand	Neuware