...-appreciated factor in the history of medieval diplomatic encounters. Examining chronicle sources and later literary renditions of the incident, retold from both French and an Anglo-Norman perspectives, the article reveals how medieval commentators made use of a rich emotional vocabulary in order either...

...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...

... 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...

... of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600–­ 1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xx, 368 pp.; 15 illus., 3 maps, 2 genealogies, 30 tables. Paper $29.99. Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines  445 Staudacher, Teresa. Volendo far la favola affettuosa...

... to Huizinga's text.] Martinon, Jean-Paul. Curating as Ethics . Thinking Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. xxiv, 297 pp. Paper $27.00. Schnell, Rüdiger. Histories of Emotion: Modern–Premodern . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. xi, 308 pp. $81.00. [Critical assessment...

.... 39 Zirka Z. Filipczak, “Poses and Passions: Mona Lisa’s ‘Closely Folded’ Hands,” in Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion, ed. Gail Taylor / The Compounded Body  179 Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe...

... microhistory since the previous generation. The “big-­ picture” focus in recent historiography is not necessarily related to global scales of analysis, but is also concerned with the history of the emotions and the senses. These are affective, human concerns that integrate corporeal- ity, intimate themes...

... in the emotions, in “Fluxes: Weisser / Grieved and Disordered  267 The Early Modern Body and the Emotions,” History Workshop Journal 53, no. 1 (2002): 1 – 16. 9 Porter and Porter, In Sickness and in Health; Fissell, Patients, Power...

... 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...

...’ 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...

... Washington University Saint Louis, Missouri Karl Morrison’s more than twenty-­year-­old statement that “[t]he history of compassion is yet to be written” continues to serve as both description and inspiration in the field of medieval studies.1 Scholars have seen...

... 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...

... and Scotland. In the pages that follow, I consider some of the history of the ideo- logical languages that animate this multifaceted vision of royal incarceration in Ane Detectioun and, more broadly, in premodern Anglo-­Scots culture. I start with Boethius and The Consolation of Philosophy, with its...

... “disappointment and pessimism” with the political program of Eliza- beth and her court.2 The subject matter itself creates problems, and not just for those readers who have blamed Spenser for even trying to write about contemporary history.3 In the 1596 edition’s new subject...

... with the church's penitential judgments on diabolical influence. Reflecting on the fourteenth revelation, the vision illustrating sin's crucial role in salvation history, she describes two ways to judge sin: that offered in the “dome of holy church,” and that offered in the “dome” of “the fair revelation” (45/261...

... Durham, North Carolina In the early nineteenth century Alessandro Manzoni, after completing I promessi sposi, composed a brief history of one of the most infamous trials of the early modern period, that of the so-­called untori or “annointers” of Milan. The trial had taken place in 1630, while...

... the other authors reviewed there. Several clusters of research questions animate this project. In very broad terms, we seek to understand how to model what we mean by recep- tion history in the digital representation of a collection of documents, and to use that modeling to make visible patterns from...

... which other temporalities work to con- ceal.” In fact, Julia Kristeva’s thesis on “women’s time” framed in response to modernist and postmodernist situations casts useful light on the Teresian temporal imperative.7 Teresa de Jesus attempts to counter an overarching, patriarchal “project” history...

... with regard to penance. Her larger charge against the revisionists is that they tend to offer a history of “loss,” and that they have introduced “polemical distortion” into Reformation scholarship that had been free of that for fifty or so years. This essay challenges Shuger’s scholarly procedure as well...