Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800

Preface: Thomas Dixon

Introduction: Michael W. Champion, Kirk Essary, and Juanita Feros Ruys

Ch. 1: Jonathan D. Teubner, 'The Failure of affectus: Affectiones and constantiae in Augustine of Hippo'

Ch. 2: Mark Amsler, 'Affectus in Medieval Grammar'

Ch. 3: Rita Copeland, 'Affectio-affectus in Latin Rhetoric up to c. 1200'

Ch. 4: Antonina Harbus, 'The Old English Vocabulary of Emotions: Glossing affectus'

Ch. 5: Juanita Feros Ruys, 'Before the Affective Turn: Affectus in Heloise, Abelard, and the Woman Writer of the Epistolae duorum amantium'

Ch. 6: Michael D. Barbezat, 'Desire to Enjoy Something Thoroughly: The Use of the Latin affectus in Hugh of St Victor's De archa Noe'

Ch. 7: Constant J. Mews, 'Affectus in the De spiritu et anima of Alcher of Clairvaux and Cistercian Writings of the Twelfth Century'

Ch. 8: Barbara Newman, 'Affectus from Hildegard to Helfta'

Ch. 9: Tomas Zahora, 'Affect, Affections, and Spiritual Capital in the Thirteenth Century'

Ch. 10: Robert C. Miner, 'Affectus and passio in the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas'

Ch. 11: Naama Cohen-Hanegbi, 'Accidentia anime in Late Medieval Medicine'

Ch. 12: Paul Megna, 'Affeccioun in Middle English Devotional Writing'

Ch. 13: Kirk Essary, 'The Renaissance of affectus? Biblical Humanism and Latin Style'

Ch. 14: Elena Carrera, 'Augustinian, Aristotelian, and Humanist Shaping of Medieval and Early Modern Emotion: Affectus, affectio, and "affection" as Travelling Concepts'

Ch. 15. R.S. White, 'Meta-, Mega- and Multiple Emotions in Early Modern English Terminology'

Ch. 16: Anik Waldow, 'Reconceptualizing Affect: Descartes on the Passions'

Ch. 17: Daniel Canaris and Francesco Borghesi, 'Defining the Emotions in the Post-Cartesian Humanism of Giambattista Vico'

Ch. 18: Margaret Watkins, 'Unprincipled by Principle: On Hume's Use of "Affection"'

Epilogue: Michael W. Champion, 'From Affectus to Affect Theory and Back Again'