Overview
- Brings together contributions on the medieval history of emotions in literary, historical and cinema studies
- Explores the face as a meaningful site of emotional expression
- Considers the relationship between emotional expression and cultural exchange
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This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, historical and cinema studies. It asks how we may best ‘face up’ to work that has been done already in these fields, and speculates about work that might yet be done, especially by medievalists working across medieval and postmedieval sources. In the idiom ‘facing up,’ its editors evoke the impulse to assess and realize the place of medieval studies in the burgeoning field of emotions research. Conceptually, psychologically, and artistically, the face is perceived as being at the forefront of many human interactions and emotional practices – as such, the face is not only a powerful conceptual site for theorizing human relationships, past and present, or a site for the representation of emotion: it is itself a catalyst for feeling. As such, the contributions gathered here provide a cutting-edge reflection on the history of medieval emotions.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephanie Downes is Lecturer at La Trobe University, Australia.
Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Facing up to the History of Emotions
Editors: Stephanie Downes, Stephanie Trigg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46413-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46412-6Published: 27 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46415-7Due: 05 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46413-3Published: 26 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 136
Additional Information: Spin-off from postmedieval Volume 8, issue 1, February 2017
Topics: Cultural History, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature