Emotional Education and Discipline in Medieval and Early Modern Times
Cultural Artifacts and Social Cultivation
Emotional Education and Discipline in Medieval and Early Modern Times
Cultural Artifacts and Social Cultivation
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Recent scholarship has begun to view human-made cultural products, such as literature and works of art, not only as reflective of contemporary ideas, norms and social or theological conceptions, but as active agents in shaping these notions. This collection investigates how various forms of cultural expression, including romances, philosophical treatises, chronicles, murals, decorative objects and illustrations, contributed to the construction of cognitive, emotional and sensual human experiences in the medieval and early modern periods.
Delving into multiple case studies of literary texts and works of art created around the globe for different communities and individuals, the chapters unravel the influence of cultural products on learning emotional norms in each setting, and explores the role of emotional rhetoric in the educational process of those individuals and communities. Not only do these cultural artifacts offer insights into the significance of particular emotions, or reveal the underlying systems of feeling prevalent in the community, they demonstrate how the texts and images themselves reinforced, challenged and reshaped what that society perceived to be valuable or detrimental.
Bringing reception studies and the history of emotions together, this collection makes an important contribution to the history of emotions in premodern contexts, and in relation to literary studies, material culture and art history.
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Table of Contents
1. Not a Shepherds' Game: Fearing the Bloody Wedding Night, Tovi Bibring (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
2. Fear and Awe: Visualization of Marsyas' Punishment in Renaissance Art, Bar Leshem (Haifa University, Israel)
3. Compassion and Anger: The Visual and Textual Representation of the 'Martyrdom' of Simon of Trent in Hartmann Schedel's World Chronical, Volker Hille (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
4. Disciplining Emotions around the Table: Feast Scenes in The Decameron, Dafna Nissim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
5. On Envy and Its Consequences: A Study of Fox Fables by Berechiah ha-Nakdan, Revital Refael-Vivante (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
6. The Aesthetic of Music in Early Medieval China: Ruan Ji and Music as Therapy of Emotions, Elisa Levi Sabattini (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
7. The Emotional Discipline and Life Strategies of the Lombard Moneylenders in the Low Countries, 13th-17th Centuries, Myriam Greilsammer (Bar-Ilan University)
8. The Forest and Sovereignty: Emotional Configurations and Human–Animal Transitions in Bisclavret by Marie de France, Cristina Álvares (CEHUM)
9. On the Melancholy of the Shechinah: The Role of Myth as a Collective Vehicle for the Expression and Processing of Emotions; On the Suffering of the Shechinah in Light of Freudian Melancholy, Ayelet Naeh (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
10. The Silence of Family Honour and the Voice of Gender – Disciplining Emotions in Le Roman de Silence, Pieternella Avrahami (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
11. Surprise, Fear, and the Martial Ethos: Functional Emotions and the Combative Mindbody in Jaufre, Laura Bernardazzi (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Product details
| Published | 07 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350539655 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Series | History of Emotions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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