Emotional Expression of Authority and Power in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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The relationship between rulers and their subjects is always channelled by emotion. This volume explores the specific tones this relationship took on in the Middle Ages, as well as their accordance with a concept of power based ultimately on agreement, an inclination to visualise emotions, a social pedagogy based on fear, and a religious ideology which placed humanity between divine order and divine wrath. It also examines the emotive models used to rule society and deal with conflicts. Together, the contributions in this book demonstrate how our understanding of late medieval society can be enhanced by recognising the emotional strategies present in the game of power and how they were used to build authority.Contributors are: Alexandru Stefan Anca, Attila Bárány, Ulrike Becker, Luciano Gallinari, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Vinni Lucherini, Esther Martí Sentañés, Francesc Massip, Rob Meens, Tamás Olbei, Bernard Ribémont, Flocel Sabaté, and Hans-Joachim Schmidt.
Flocel Sabaté, Ph.D. (1993), Universitat de Barcelona, is Professor of Medieval History at the Universitat de Lleida and Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. He has published many books about medieval society, such as The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia (Routledge, 2020).
PrefaceFlocel SabatéList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Medieval History, Power and EmotionsFlocel SabatéPart 1Building Authority2 The Expression of Power in Chanson de Geste in French (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)Bernard Ribémont3 Nose-Cutting in Calila e Dimna: A Passionate Outburst or Manifestation of Power? Some Transcultural AspectsUlrike Becker4 Love in the Family: Fear in the State – Concepts of John Duns Scotus on Power and EmotionsHans-Joachim SchmidtPart 2Emotive Models to Rule Society5 Sensing the Devil – Creating the Sacred? Sensory Elements of Demonic Possession in Canonisation Processes (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)Sari Katajala-Peltomaa6 When the King Shed Tears: Political Behaviour in the Crown of AragonAlexandru Ștefan Anca7 Dynamic Gestures and Static Expressions in the Angevin Chronicle of the Kings of HungaryVinni LucheriniPart 3Dealing with Conflicts8 Galbert’s Anxiety? The Church of St. Donatian and the Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders (1127)Rob Meens9 Memories of a Forgotten CrusadeTamás Ölbei10 Responses to the Ottoman Military Threat in Late Fourteenth-Century HungaryAttila BárányPart 4Emotional Strategies on the Play of Power11 Feelings and Political Discourses in the Giudicati of Sardinia (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries)Luciano Gallinari12 The City and the King: Emotions and Institutional Life in Fifteenth-Century LleidaEsther Martí Sentañés13 The Gestures of Power in the Crown of Aragon: The Use of the SpectacleFrancesc MassipIndex
