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The Emotional Expression of Authority and Power in the Middle Ages
Series: - Later Medieval Europe, Volume: 28
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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.
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
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
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.