Medieval Sensibilities by Damien Boquet, Piroska Nagy, Robert... - 9781509514656

Medieval SensibilitiesA History of Emotions in the Middle Ages\nAuthor(s): Damien Boquet, Piroska Nagy, Robert Shaw\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509514656, 978-1509514656\nSynopsis\nWhat do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society. In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve into a rich variety of texts and images to reveal the many and nuanced experiences of emotion during the Middle Ages from the demonstrative shame of a saint to a nobleman's fear of embarrassment, from the enthusiasm of a crusading band to the fear of a town threatened by the approach of war or plague. Boquet and Nagy show how these outbursts of joy and pain, while universal expression.