Overview

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.

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Author:   Flocel Sabaté
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   26
Weight:   0.857kg
ISBN:  

9789004713864

ISBN 10:   9004713867
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   06 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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