...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...’ 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...

... 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 of engaging with what the author was thinking and feeling. This conclusion, however, will take...

... 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...

... 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...

... reader together account for nearly half of the adjectives used with reader in WWO, compared with only 12.8% of usage in WWiR. WWO authors seem to hail the readers of their own works pre- dominantly in terms that call the reader into a relationship of emotional rapport. In comparing the specific readerly...

... Angliae and George Buchanan’s De Iure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus. In both works, royal incarceration comes to emblematize a monarchy limited by the law — a form of restraint that both Fortescue and Buchanan, implicitly invoking Boethian philosophy, also make contingent upon emotional temperance...

..., and the last to divine (74/355–56). This schematic account of fear offers a way to analyze the “dredes and tempests of fiendes” that Julian experiences on the deathbed. Indeed, Julian describes dread as an emotional symptom of the bodily sickness mediating temptation and tribulation. 60 In the preceding...

... ac ratione puts it — Casoni and his contemporaries nonetheless believed that the inter- nal states of the body (emotions, thoughts, guilt) could be read on the body’s Martin / Rhetorical Forensics of the Body  105 various surfaces.18 In their view, therefore...

... of reason and emotion through fictions. In the legend of Britomart, guile is a tool of justice as much as it is of evil. The guile of a dream furthers Britomart’s quest; through her mas- tery of the vision at the Temple of Isis, she gains the ability...

... of engaging with the Passion that is not so much a poetry of meditation as it is a poetry of immolation. Passion is in this context an enormously rich and elusive term, des- ignating both the enormous agony of Jesus and the swirl of emotions that this suffering instills in the individual believer...