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Early European Research (EER 8)Understanding Emotions in Early EuropeM. Champion, A. Lynch (eds.)XXXIV+357 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2015ISBN: 978-2-503-55264-4Languages: EnglishHardbackThe publication is in production. (06/2015)Retail price: EUR 90,00 excl. taxHow to order?  Drawing on the latest scholarship from international resarchers, this dedicated collection investigates how medieval and early modern Europeans understood and articulated emotions.This book investigates how medieval and early modern Europeans constructed, understood, and articulated emotions. The essays trace concurrent lines of influence that shaped post-Classical understandings of emotions through overlapping philosophical, rhetorical, and theological discourses. They show the effects of developments in genre and literary, aesthetic, and cognitive theories on depictions of psychological and embodied emotion in literature. They map the deeply embedded emotive content inherent in rituals, formal documents, daily conversation, communal practice, and cultural memory. The contributors focus on the mediation and interpretation of pre-modern emotional experience in cultural structures and institutions — customs, laws, courts, religious foundations — as well as in philosophical, literary, and aesthetic traditions.This volume thus represents a conspectus of contemporary interpretative strategies, displaying close connections between disciplinary and interdisciplinary critical practices drawn from historical studies, literature, anthropology and archaeology, philosophy and theology, cognitive science, psychology, religious studies, and gender studies. The essays stretch from classical and indigenous cultures to the contemporary West, embracing numerous national and linguistic groups. They illuminate the complex potential of medieval and early modern emotions in situ, analysing their involvement in subjects as diverse as philosophical theories, imaginative and scholarly writing, concepts of individual and communal identity, social and political practices, and the manifold business of everyday life.Table of ContentsUnderstanding Emotions: ‘the things they left behind’ — MICHAEL CHAMPION and ANDREW LYNCHI. Intellectual TraditionsFrom Regret to Remorse: The Origins of a Moral Emotion — DAVID KONSTANRepresenting Emotions in Three Byzantine Orations of Michael Psellos — MICHAEL CHAMPION‘Tears such as angels weep’: The Evolution of Sadness in Demons — JUANITA FEROS RUYSEmotional Strategies in the Early English Lyric — DANIEL ANLEZARKII. Literature‘What Passion cannot Musick raise and quell!’ The Pindaric Ode and the Musical Sublime in the History of Emotions — MIRANDA STANYONEmbodied Emotion, Conceptual Metaphor and the Aesthetics of Reading Old English Poetry — ANTONINA HARBUSGuinevere as ‘Social Person’: Emotion and Community in Chrétien de Troyes — ANDREW LYNCHPositive Emotion in the Thirteenth Century: The Emotional World of Goswin of Bossut — JENNIFER CARPENTERDecoding the Emotions in Aphra Behn’s and Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Travel Narratives — MARGARETE RUBIKIII. Social History and Material CultureFear, Gender and Violence in Early Modern Ireland  — DIANNE HALLFear of Crime in Eighteenth-Century London — ROBERT SHOEMAKERReality and Ritual in the Medieval King’s Emotions of Ira and Clementia — PENELOPE NASHAffective Bequests: Creating Emotion in York Wills, 1400–1600 — LISA LIDDY'Memento mori': Love/Fear of and for the Dead amongst Early Homo sapiens: Archaeological Approaches — SANDRA BOWDLER and JANE BALMENotes on ContributorsIndex