Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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