This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various
interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern
Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when
limited literacy often prioritised material methods of
communication. The subject of materiality has been of increasing
significance in recent historical inquiry, alongside growing
emphasis on the relationships between objects, emotions, and affect
in archaeological and sociological research. The historical
intersections between materiality and emotions, however, have
remained under-theorised, particularly with respect to artefacts
that have continuing resonance over extended periods of time or
across cultural and geographical space. Feeling Things addresses
the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical
framework for the analysis of objects and emotions in European
history, with special attention to the need to track the shifting
emotional valencies of objects from the past to the present, and
from one place and cultural context to another. The collection
draws together an international group of historians, art
historians, curators, and literary scholars working on a variety of
cultural, literary, visual, and material sources. Objects
considered include books, letters, prosthetics, religious relics,
shoes, stone, and textiles. Many of these have been preserved in
international galleries, museums, and archives, while others have
remained in their original locations, even as their contexts have
changed over time. The chapters consider the ways in which emotions
such as despair, fear, grief, hope, love, and wonder become
inscribed in and ascribed to these items, producing 'emotional
objects' of significance and agency. Such objects can be harnessed
to create, affirm, or express individual relationships, as, for
example, in religious devotion and practice, or in the construction
of cultural, communal, and national identities.
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