Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions)

This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Andreea Marculescu, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier)....Pages 1-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Passionate Politics: Emotion and Identity Formation Among the Menu Peuple in Early Fifteenth Century France (Emily J. Hutchison)....Pages 19-49 Pity as a Political Emotion in Early Modern Europe (Natalia Wawrzyniak)....Pages 51-64 “Issuing from the Great Flame of This Joy”: Marguerite of Navarre, Louise of Savoy, and Emotional Intimacy (Tracy Adams)....Pages 65-85 Emotions of the Past in Catherine de Medici’s Correspondence (Susan Broomhall)....Pages 87-104 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 Emotional Contagion: Évrart de Conty and Compassion (Béatrice Delaurenti)....Pages 107-126 Love Conventional/Love Singular: Desire in Middle English Lyric (Sarah Kathryn Moore)....Pages 127-142 Internal Theater and Emotional Scripts in French Jesuit Meditative Literature (Jennifer Hillman)....Pages 143-163 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 Cruelty and Empathy in Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques: The Gaze of and on the Reader (Kathleen Long)....Pages 167-194 Narrating a Massacre: The Writing of History and Emotions as Response to the Battle of Nicopolis (1396) (Charles-Louis Morand Métivier)....Pages 195-210 “Doel” In Situ: The Contextual and Corporeal Landscape of Grief in La Chanson de Roland (Angela Warner)....Pages 211-226 Performing Chivalric Masculinity: Morality, Restraint, and Emotional Norms in the Libro del Cavallero Zifar (Kim Bergqvist)....Pages 227-246 Back Matter ....Pages 247-278 Annotation This work analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from 11th-century France, to 15th-century Iberia and England, and ending with 17th-century Jesuit mediative literature. Essays in this text explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors Andreea Marculescu, Charles-louis Morand Métivier, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 253-274) And Index.