Performing Emotions in Early Europe

330 Pages·2018·2.404 MB·English

by  Philippa Maddern, Joanne McEwan, Anne M. Scott (eds.)

Performing Emotions
in Early Europe
EARLY EUROPEAN RESEARCH
Series founded by the Australian Research Council Network for
Early European Research, and now directed by The University of
Western Australia Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
General Editors
Andrew Lynch, University of Western Australia
Claire McIlroy, University of Western Australia
Editorial Board
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland
Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds
Matthias Meyer, Universität Wien
Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Kent State University Florence Center
Juanita Feros Ruys, University of Sydney
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Universitetet i Oslo
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book
Volume 11
Performing Emotions
in Early Europe
Edited by
Philippa Maddern, Joanne McEwan,
and Anne M. Scott
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© 2018, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium
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ISBN: 978-2-503-57237-6
e-ISBN: 978-2-503-57296-3
DOI: 10.1484/M.EER-EB.5.113963
Printed on acid-free paper
Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Performing Emotions in
Medi eval and Early Modern Worlds
PHILIPPA MADDERN, JOANNE McEWAN, and ANNE M. SCOTT xiii
Part I. Emotional Performativity in Music,
Literature, and the Visual Arts
Emotion, Time, and Music at Cambrai Cathedral
MATTHEW S. CHAMPION 3
‘Affecting glory from vices’:
Negotiating Shame in Prostitution Texts, 1660–1750
EMILY COCk 27
Pageant, Spectacle, Dread, and Love in Piers Plowman,
Brueghel’s Triumph of Death, and the Good Samaritan
Window of Bourges Cathedral
ANNE M. SCOTT 51
Affected Bodies and Bodily Affect:
Visualizing Emotion in Renaissance Plague Images
LOUISE MARSHALL 73
vi Contents
Part II. Social Performance
The ‘Slime of Vice’ and the ‘Passions of the Mind’:
Emotional Histories in the Anglo-Norman World
LINDSAY DIGGELMANN 107
Courting Nassau Affections: Performing Love
in Orange-Nassau Marriage Negotiations
SUSAN BROOMHALL and JACqUELINE VAN GENT 133
‘[D]id ringe at oure parish churche … for joye
that the queene of Skotts … was beheaded’:
Public Performances of Early Modern English Emotions
DOLLY MackINNON 169
Part III. Religious Performance
Emotion, Place, and Memory at the Royal Abbey of St Denis
MEGAN CASSIDY-WELCH 185
Boosting the Emotional Power of New Liturgy:
The Hidden Sides of Things in Giotto’s Crib at Greccio
RICHARD READ 201
Discursive Affect and Emotional Prescriptiveness:
On the ‘Man of Sorrows’ in Four teenth-Century Italian Painting
LACHLAN TURNBULL 221
Martin Luther’s Heart
SUSAN C. kARANT-NUNN 243
Part IV. Recreating Emotional Performance
‘Laughing at Death’: Emotional Excess in
The Duchess of Malfi in Performance
STEVE CHINNA 267
Index 287
List of Illustrations
Matthew S. Champion
Figure 2.1. Marian Antiphon, Sub tuum presidium. Cambrai, Médiathèque
d’agglomération de Cambrai, MS 38, fol. 331r.......................... 16
Figure 2.2. Guillaume Du Fay, Kyrie (opening)
from Missa ecce ancilla Domini...................................... 18
Figure 2.3. Guillaume Du Fay, Agnus dei (opening)
from Missa ecce ancilla Domini...................................... 19
Anne M. Scott
Figure 4.1. Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525–69),
The Triumph of Death, detail of the lower right section,
1562 (oil on panel). Prado, Madrid, Spain ........................... 60
Louise Marshall
Figure 5.1. Antoniazzo Romano (attrib.), Plague in Rome,
detail: Plague Dead, c. 1476. Rome, San Pietro in Vincoli.............. 74
Figure 5.2. Florentine ‘Fine Manner’, St Sebastian with 11 Scenes of his
Life, detail: Plague in Rome, c. 1460–70. Istanbul, Topkapi Palace
Museum Library, Album H.2153 (Fatih Album), fol. 144b. ........... 76
Figure 5.3. Antoniazzo Romano (attrib.), Plague in Rome,
detail: Plague Dead, c. 1476. Rome, San Pietro in Vincoli.............. 77
Figure 5.4. Francesco Traini (attrib.), Triumph of Death, 1330s.
Pisa, Camposanto. ................................................ 79
viii list of iLLUSTRATIONS
Figure 5.5. Anonymous Lucchese illuminator, Plague in 1348
[The Black Death], in Giovanni Sercambi, Croniche, c. 1400.
Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 107, fol. 49v. .......................... 85
Figure 5.6. Giorgio Vasari, God Sends the Plague on Israel, 1536–37.
Arezzo, Museo Diocesano. ........................................ 86
Figure 5.7. Barnaba da Modena, Plague Madonna della Misericordia,
detail: Plague Dead, 1378. Genoa, Santa Maria dei Servi. ............. 87
Figure 5.8. Pietro Alemanno, Plague Madonna della Misericordia
with Sts Ginesius and Vincent Ferrer, detail: Plague Dead, 1485.
San Ginesio, Collegiata. ........................................... 87
Figure 5.9. Anonymous Lombard–Ligurian artist, St Nicholas of
Tolentino Saving Pisa from the Plague, detail: Plague Dead.
Altarpiece of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (location unknown). ........ 89
Figure 5.10. Barnaba da Modena, Plague Madonna
della Misericordia, 1378. Genoa, Santa Maria dei Servi. ............... 90
Figure 5.11. Francesco Pelosio (attrib.), Plague Madonna della
Misericordia. Imola, Museo Civico. (Photo: Museo Civico.) ........... 90
Figure 5.12. Valentino Pica il Vecchio (d. 1490), Plague
Madonna della Misericordia. Tuscania, Sant’Agostino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Figure 5.13. Pietro Alemanno, Plague Madonna della Misericordia with
Sts Ginesius and Vincent Ferrer, 1485. San Ginesio, Collegiata. ........ 91
Figure 5.14. Giovan Pietro da Cemmo, St Roch Healing Plague Victims,
1504. Berzo Inferiore, San Lorenzo, Cappella del Comune............. 94
Figure 5.15. Battista da Legnano, St Roch Healing Plague Victims,
1534. Crana, Oratorio di San Rocco................................. 94
Figure 5.16. Pascale Oddone (attrib.), St Roch Healing Plague Victims,
c. 1530. Brossasco, San Rocco....................................... 95
Figure 5.17. Giovan Pietro da Cemmo, St Roch, 1492.
Esine, Santa Maria Assunta......................................... 96
Figure 5.18. Bernardino Loschi, St Roch, c. 1520s (?). Carpi, San Nicolò.... 97