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Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291 (Hardcover)
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Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291 (Hardcover)
Series: Emotions in History
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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of
the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in
which a number of emotions and affective displays - primarily fear,
anger, and weeping - were understood, represented, and utilized in
twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades,
making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the
distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal
encyclicals, model sermons, chansons de geste, lyrics, and an array
of theological and philosophical treatises. In addition to charting
continuities and changes over time in the emotional landscape of
crusading, this study identifies the underlying influences which
shaped how medieval authors represented and used emotions; analyzes
the passions crusade participants were expected to embrace and
reject; and assesses whether the idea of crusading created a
profoundly new set of attitudes towards emotions. Emotions in a
Crusading Context calls on scholars of the crusades to reject the
traditional methodological approach of taking the emotional
descriptions embedded within historical narratives as
straightforward reflections of protagonists' lived feelings, and in
so doing challenges the long historiographical tradition of
reconstructing participants' beliefs and experiences from these
texts. Within the history of emotions, Stephen J. Spencer
demonstrates that, despite the ongoing drive to develop new
methodologies for studying the emotional standards of the past,
typified by experiments in 'neurohistory', the social
constructionist (or cultural-historical) approach still has much to
offer the historian of medieval emotions.
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