Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: Emotions in History
Número de páginas: 320 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 25-08-2023
EAN: 9780198892939
ISBN: 978-0-19-889293-9
Precio (sin IVA): 33,42 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,76 €
This 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; analyses 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.