Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100–1800

335 Pages·2015·7.229 MB·English

by  Susan Broomhall (ed.)

Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100–1800
Studies in Medieval and
Reformation Traditions
Edited by
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures and Tables xi
List of Contributors xii
Introduction: Hearts and Minds: Ordering Emotions in Europe,
1100–1800 1
Susan Broomhall
1 Nine Angry Angels: Order, Emotion, and the Angelic and Demonic
Hierarchies in the High Middle Ages 14
Juanita Feros Ruys
2 Christ’s Masculinity: Homo and Vir in Peter Lombard’s Sentences 32
Clare Monagle
3 Modes and Manipulation: Music, the State, and Emotion 48
Carol J. Williams
4 Avarice, Emotions, and the Family in Thirteenth-Century Moral
Discourse 69
Spencer E. Young
5 Affective Memory across Time: The Emotive City of Christine de
Pizan 85
Louise D’Arcens
6 Nicholas of Modruš’s De consolatione (1465–1466): A New Approach to
Grief Management 105
Han Baltussen
7 Hearts on Fire: Compassion and Love in Nicolas Houel’s Traité de la
Charité chrestienne 121
Susan Broomhall
8 Living Anxiously: The Senses, Society and Morality in Pre-Modern
England 161
Danijela Kambaskovic
viii contents
9 Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern
Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal
Love 180
Raphaële Garrod
10 Anatomy of a Passion: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale as
Case Study 197
Louis C. Charland and R.S. White
11 Arts and Games of Love: Genre, Gender and Special Friendships in
Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetry 225
Yasmin Haskell
12 Androgyny and the Fear of Demonic Intervention in the Early Modern
Iberian Peninsula: Ecclesiastical and Popular Responses 245
François Soyer
13 Medical Effects and Affects: The Expression of Emotions in Early
Modern Patient–Physician Correspondence 263
Robert L. Weston
Select Bibliography 283
Index of Modern Authors 308
Index of Subjects 314
Index of Historical Authors 317
Acknowledgements
This volume emerges, in part, through the financial support and fellowship
provided by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the
History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800) (project number CE110001011). The
Centre has supported, directly or indirectly, many of our interests in discover-
ing how emotions make history, and has enabled many of the contributors of
this volume to meet and exchange ideas over the past three years.
Colleagues at the Centre’s headquarters at The University of Western
Australia have provided valuable support and assistance, as well as shared ideas
and thoughts on emerging research. Thank you to Director Andrew Lynch and
Deputy Director Jane Davidson, Centre Manager Tanya Tuffrey, and staff, Pam
Bond and Katrina Tap, who form a large part of the social and emotional glue
that binds us together in a scholarly sociability, and who make the Centre such
an enjoyable place to work. I would not have been able to achieve this work
without the tireless and dedicated editorial assistance of Sarah Finn, Joanne
McEwan, and Lesley O’Brien. I am sincerely grateful to them.
This volume exists because of the courageous Founding Director of the
Centre, Winthrop Professor Philippa Maddern.1 Pip passed away on 16 June
2014, after a determined battle against cancer that she refused to let define
her or impede her from the work that she loved so much. Generations of stu-
dents, early career scholars, and colleagues in the humanities, and especially
medieval studies, in Australia were mentored by Pip, and benefited from her
support, guidance, and carefully considered advice. She fought hard for wom-
en’s studies, for history, for the humanities, and for staff and student rights on
campus. She was equally determined in her research about ordinary medieval
people—especially the marginal, the vulnerable, and those often deemed the
hardest to find in the records. After completing a DPhil in fifteenth-century
social history at Oxford in 1985, Pip returned to Australia where academic posi-
tions were scarce. She worked outside academia for a short time, and began
to write and publish science fiction, combining interests in the sciences and
the humanities that would later find voice in the interdisciplinary Centre of
Excellence on human emotions and their histories that forms one aspect of
her legacy.
1  See the Centre’s Memorial Page for Philippa at http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/about-
the-centre/research-roles/memorial-page-for-founding-director-philippa-maddern.aspx.
x acknowledgements
Pip’s participation in scholarly events, through her supervision and her men-
toring, assisted generations of Australian scholars interested in medieval and
early modern studies and in gender analyses. Many of us remember her vital
presence at the local seminars, Australian and New Zealand Association for
Medieval and Early Modern Studies biennial conferences and Centre events,
where she could always be counted upon to ask penetrating questions of every
paper—on all manner of subjects—that she attended. Pip never failed to fol-
low up young scholars at such gatherings and by emails afterwards, asking
about their research and offering succour and support where needed. Many
of us have benefited from her care and attention to us as young scholars enter-
ing academia. The establishment of the Australian Research Council Centre of
Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe, 1100–1800) in 2011, of which
Pip was Director, gave her new opportunities to support the next generation
of Australian scholars through postdoctoral fellowships, travel bursaries and
skills training seminars and to bring them into the Centre’s research discus-
sions and debates with leading national and international scholars.
Pip gave both heart and mind to everything she did. Her scholarly interests
reflected her own experiences as a female scholar in the world of academia,
and she always remembered the real-world contexts and challenges of those
around her. The contributors to this collection were privileged to know Pip as
a colleague and mentor, and as a very dear friend, and we dedicate this volume
to her memory.