{"title":"Emotional Pain and Self-Harm in the Prose Lancelot and the Alliterative Morte Arthure","authors":"Guillemette Bolens","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-bja10056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-bja10056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Medieval romance often associates anger, sadness and distress with self-harm when these emotions reach a high level of intensity. In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Arthur’s knights protest that the king is ‘blundering himself’ (that is, injuring himself) when mourning Gawain and feeling overwhelmed with sorrow. In the Prose Lancelot, Galehaut asks Lancelot, who has spent the night beset by heart-wrenching grief, why he is ‘killing himself’. In both works, the self is foregrounded in episodes that involve intense emotions and self-inflicted injury. The purpose of this essay is to investigate this recurring association of extreme emotions with self-harm in medieval romance.","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"57 44","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140970071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Warring Emotions: Anger, Settler Colonialism and Racecraft in Sixteenth-Century Florida","authors":"Heather Martel","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-bja10054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-bja10054","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This is an emotional history of an emotional alliance of French and Indigenous warriors who united to avenge the Spanish massacre of the Huguenot Fort Caroline in Florida in 1565. In this alliance, Indigenous fury was normalised when it served French Protestant interests. However, Protestant representations of Spanish and Indigenous rage used for the black legend presently came to found racist arguments for structural violence in settler colonialism and American white supremacy that are gendered and rooted in bodies. To explain, this essay sets this revenge story within the logics of the sixteenth-century French emotional regime.","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"48 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140969364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotion and the Female Self: Finding Space for Expression","authors":"Morgan Dickson","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-bja10057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-bja10057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The expression of emotions, including desire and anger, is culturally encoded, being accepted – or not – depending on factors including social class and gender. In the twelfth century, while the public expression of anger was generally seen as negative, it was deemed acceptable when kings or other aristocratic men used anger as a corrective to a perceived wrong. This public utterance of anger can be seen as an expression of selfhood, of rendering exterior the emotional experience of the interior self. Yet the insular Romance of Horn diverges from this socially gendered behaviour when the princess Rigmel expresses her anger publicly. An analysis of the gendered space of the narrative allows for an understanding of how Rigmel’s anger may be appropriate in the specific context of the scene and what this shows about the expression of female selfhood in relation to her more furtive and private expressions of desire.","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"17 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140967308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spears and Spikes: Illness, Emotion and Bodily Invasion in Old Norse Abscess Narratives","authors":"Caroline Batten","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-bja10051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-bja10051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Old Norse medical corpus, both manuscript and epigraphic, illuminates understandings of the body and of the relationship between sickness, somatic emotion and the perceived integrity of the individual self in Viking and medieval Scandinavia. This essay argues that Old Norse medical texts and charms understand illness not only as an imbalance of humours but also as an invasive, anthropomorphised agent that seeks to breach the boundaries of the human body. Falling victim to illness is understood as a zero-sum power exchange, visualised through images of martial defeat and sexualised submission. Strong emotion can be rendered as physical illness in Old Norse literature because both forces threaten the integrity of the contained and individualised self. As a thematic case study, this essay examines runic healing charms, late medieval medical manuscripts and saga episodes dealing with boils and abscesses, which are attributed both to the surging of vital spirits and to the action of supernatural disease agents, to examine the way these texts understand the embodied self.","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"230 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140768792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating the Self in Medieval European Romance: Narration and Emotion in Partonopeu de Blois, Partonopier und Meliur and Partonope of Blois","authors":"Lucie Kaempfer","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-bja10053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-bja10053","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article approaches the question of selfhood by reading the opening passage of the Old French romance Partonopeu de Blois alongside its translations in different Northern European languages: the thirteenth-century Middle High German Partonopier und Meliur by Konrad von Würzburg and the fifteenth-century Middle English Partonope of Blois. Both translations bring interiority and subjectivity to the passage by adding direct speech and access to the character’s thoughts and motivations. In allowing the protagonist to respond to and rationalise his own emotions, the translators add a layer of self-awareness to their characterisation, thus producing a narrated self that was lacking in the original. This article demonstrates the great potential of comparative analysis in the study of medieval emotion and self. The different linguistic versions of the same passage here illuminate one another, highlighting different narrative techniques in the construction of literary selfhood. While the objective, exterior style of narration in the Old French passage constructs a helpless character, lacking in self-possession, the later German and English translations display a different narrative strategy that reveals their character’s decision-making process, and thus make him into a self-reflecting agent.","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140214646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘De voix femmenine’: Self, Voice and Emotive Display in Jean d’Arras’s Mélusine","authors":"Meritxell R. de la Torre","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-bja10052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-bja10052","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The 14th century French romance Mélusine ou la Noble Histoire de Lusignan focuses on the peculiar founding mother of the house of Lusignan, who, due to a curse imposed by her fairy mother, is forced to transform in secrecy into a half-serpent, half-human figure every Saturday. The romance depicts her life after the curse and her ultimate exile after her husband discovers her in her hybrid form. As the lady flies away fully transformed into a giant serpent, however, marks of her enduring selfhood prevail: first, in a mark embedded in a windowsill in the shape of a foot and later, as a voiced emotional complaint, described as the voice of a woman. The serpent’s emotive display confirms the existence of a stable, yet malleable core selfhood in the character that prevails through her embodied changes. The goal is to establish emotive display as an effective tool to access narrated selfhood in the romance.","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140213080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865–1914, written by Ebrahimi, Sara Honarmand","authors":"Catherine-Rose Hailstone","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"171 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139183374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life, written by Gotby, Alva","authors":"Gözde Kılıç","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"2 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139183728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democratic Passions: The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 1809–48, written by Roberts, Matthew","authors":"R. Boddice","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139255887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning, edited by Amaya, Amalia, and Maksymilian Del Mar","authors":"Francesca Alati","doi":"10.1163/2208522x-02010200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505771,"journal":{"name":"Emotions: History, Culture, Society","volume":"271 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139258850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}