Defining and Perceiving Feelings in the Late Middle Ages: (27 Later Medieval Europe)

In order to have a constructive discussion about feelings in the late Middle Ages, it is beneficial to first evaluate how the feelings of individual men and women were defined. As such, the purpose of this book is to explore the words used by late medieval men and women to refer to their feelings and to examine their meanings. By doing so, we can better understand the efforts of late medieval society to express, use, and transmit certain feelings, especially as they related to manoeuvres of power or the articulation of social values. Contributors are: Mechthild Albert, Jacqueline Cerquiglioni-Toulet, Frank Collard, Paola Corti Badia, Francesca Español, Isabel Grifoll, Juan Francisco Jiménez Alcázar, José Martínez Gázquez, Alicia Minguélez, Matilde Juan, Liza N. Pina-Rubio, Gerardo Rodríguez, Flocel Sabaté, Benedicte Sère, and Marta Serrano.

Table of Contents:
Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1 Discussing Terms about Feelings 1 To Perceive an Emotive Middle Ages   Flocel Sabaté 2 Affect or Thought? Sentement in Poetics at the End of the Middle Ages   Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet 3 Friendship: Feeling, Emotions or Social Bond? The Intermittences of Historiography   Bénédicte Sère Part 2 Defining and Placing Feelings 4 Obediensa: Troubadours, Love, and Feudalism   Isabel Grifoll 5 Anger and Power: Considerations about a Problematic Relationship in Calila y Dimna   Mechthild Albert 6 Passion and Compassion in a Manuscript of Mary of Cleves, Duchess of Orleans: Reading, Seeing and Feeling Pain in the Fifteenth Century   Paola Corti Badía 7 Amorous Feelings in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna: Representation of Medieval Sensory Physiology in a Monastic Code   Liza N. Piña-Rubio Part 3 Expressing and Using Feelings 8 Non Minus Amicitie Quam Peritie Facultatibus Innixus: Friendship and Other Feelings in the Medieval Translators from Arabic to Latin   José Martínez Gázquez 9 Odium Capitale et Crimen Nephandum: Hatred and Poison in the Medieval West   Frank Collard 10 Dread, Terror, Fright and Panic: Fear in the Late-Medieval Iberian Peninsula   Juan-Francisco Jiménez-Alcázar and Gerardo F. Rodríguez 11 Love as an Excuse: The Tombs of Pedro and Inês at the Portuguese Monastery of Alcobaça   Alicia Miguélez Part 4 Transmitting Feelings 12 Evocations, Contemplations, Inventions and Art: Literature and Virtue Represented in the Iberian Peninsula in the Fifteenth Century   Matilde Miquel Juan 13 Martyrdom, Death and Sensitivities at Play   Francesca Español 14 The Multisensorial Perception of the Expression of Mourning: Attitudes and Behaviours towards the Memory and Death of the Kings and Queens of Aragon   Marta Serrano Index

About the Author :
Flocel Sabaté, Ph.D. (1993), Universitat de Barcelona, is Professor of Medieval History at the Universitat de Lleida and Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. He has published many books about medieval society, such as The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia (Routledge, 2020).