...Olivia Weisser By focusing on firsthand accounts of illness by patients rather than the writing of medical authors, this article shows that the emotions assume a much greater role in early modern explanations of the onset of illness than historians have supposed. In addition to spiritual, physical...

... evidence in its wake. Indeed, notions of the body are integral to understanding early modern witchcraft beliefs, particularly at a time when the boundary between mind and body was viewed as porous and permeable. This was a time when emotions were seen to have physical consequences, and this belief played...

...Lindsay Diggelmann In 1188, an eye-catching display of royal anger resulted in the destruction of the ancient elm tree at Gisors by Philip II of France. Building on recent reappraisals of anger and other emotions in the medieval context, this essay seeks to understand how contemporary observers may...

... language. The study of medical discourse and its flexibility connects with work on the history of the emotions, on affect and feeling, on disability, on cognition and sense perception, and on form and genre. Many of the essays here consider reading as an embodied practice and explore how the practice...

...-century fabrics, creating a sumptuous mosaic of color. Thus augmented and annotated, the cycle records and provokes intense intellectual, emotional, and physical responses which evoke the rituals of late medieval devotion. At the same time, the cycle is the product of an international print industry...

...Richard Sugg In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, human physiology was mediated by the vital spirits. These fine vapors of heated blood and air not only linked body and soul, but were central to processes and ideas of generation, sight, mind-body unity, muscle and nerve action, and emotion...

...Jessica Hines Building on recent critical conversations in the history of the emotions, this article examines how the language of compassion came into English culture and how it was deployed for theological and political purposes. It traces the growth of compassion in England in the early fifteenth...

...Ronda Arab This essay examines envy within a particular historical circumstance, that of the noninheriting younger son, and contributes to scholarship that situates the etiology of emotion (and its resultant consequences) within culture and history . In Sir George Sondes His plaine Narrative...

... as a constructive habit signaling the ability to live a socially harmonious life. The discussion demonstrates the inherent moral value of shame (and other self-reflexive emotions) and the constitutive role of shame for moral agency. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636...

... the recovery of ephemeral audience affect. Studying spectators’ emotions is notoriously challenging but can productively complicate concepts such as character and narrative. Moreover, it was through amorphous feelings and sensations that theater actively produced cultural understandings. Expanding...

...Alexandra Walsham Fervent Protestants validated their individual and collective status as God's elect children by recalling the spiritual “experiments” he had wrought within their hearts and souls. By investigating their written testimonies of the emotional and corporeal effects which the Holy...

... they are ordered and shelved by libraries. Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Identity, experience, emotions Sexuality and erotic desire The natural world Global connections...

...’ Creed. The work thus offers a new way of conceiving both women’s affective piety and the relationship between vernacular and clerical theology. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 A Christian Mannes Bileeve Apostles’ Creed medieval affective spirituality reason and emotion...

... the practi- cal, daily demands on emotions and ethical behavior.4 In the discourse sur- rounding the sacrament of confession — primarily the penitential treatises directed at both priests and laity — one’s relationship to others is refracted through incredibly detailed analyses of feelings...

... intention. In what follows, I consider in turn three spheres of medieval engagement with authorial intention: pedagogical, moral, and emotional. My argument is that even when we are interacting aesthetically with a text, we give up a great deal of what matters in literature if we abandon the project...

... used oaths to say something about Shakespeare’s speech, I will see whether the question of such speech can throw any new light on the issues of character and agency, ethics and emotion, authorial subjectivity and poetic identity. A quick search on a convenient Internet site...

... of the eyebrows, or perhaps most especially in more transient states such as moments of blushing or growing pale—information about the underlying character, thoughts, and emotions of an individual. And it was on the basis of these claims that the ancients first elaborated what they came to call “physiognomy...

... meaning and sharing it are crucial constituents of this process. 3 Therefore, experience is one of the mechanisms that connects individuals to their societies. On an individual level, experience is a holistic phenomenon connecting the somatic and the cognitive: emotions with corporeality, the sensate...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Biographical studies 4. Contact cultures 5. The Americas 6. The natural world 7. Emotions and sensory experience 8. Sexuality...

... into a relationship of emotional rapport. In comparing the specific readerly characterizations between WWO and WWiR, not all of the differences are statistically significant, but notably those that are occur in a higher proportion of instances in WWiR: the judi- Table 1. Possessive adjectives associated...