Managing Emotions in the Middle Ages
Published on 6. February 2025
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-90-04-71386-4 (ISBN)
Description
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, Inaki Bazan, Anna Caiozzo, Carla Casagrande, Riccardo Cristiani, Vincent Debiais, Jonas Holst, Eduard Juncosa, Andrea Knox, Mauricio Molina, Miguel Angel Motis, Josep Maria Ruiz Simon, Flocel Sabate, Karen Stoeber, William Marx, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Alberto Velasco, and Alexandra Velissariou.
Contributors are: Maravillas Aguiar, Inaki Bazan, Anna Caiozzo, Carla Casagrande, Riccardo Cristiani, Vincent Debiais, Jonas Holst, Eduard Juncosa, Andrea Knox, Mauricio Molina, Miguel Angel Motis, Josep Maria Ruiz Simon, Flocel Sabate, Karen Stoeber, William Marx, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Alberto Velasco, and Alexandra Velissariou.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
786 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-71386-4 (9789004713864)
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Flocel Sabate, 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).
Content
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? ?Sabat?e??????
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? ?St?oe?ber??????
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
??I?n?aki? ?Baz?a?n D?i?az?????
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 ?A?ngel? ?Motis??????
Part 6?
Emotional Travellers?
14?Facing Hard Times. Emotion and the Expression of Self in the Autobiographical Accounts by al-Qala?adi and al-??agari
??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
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? ?Sabat?e??????
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? ?St?oe?ber??????
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
??I?n?aki? ?Baz?a?n D?i?az?????
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 ?A?ngel? ?Motis??????
Part 6?
Emotional Travellers?
14?Facing Hard Times. Emotion and the Expression of Self in the Autobiographical Accounts by al-Qala?adi and al-??agari
??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