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Managing Emotions in the Middle Ages
Series: - Later Medieval Europe, Volume: 26
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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.
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.
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
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
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
This book will be of particular interest to historians and post-graduate students who study medieval history or the history of emotions and human behaviours.