Arc Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Facing up to the history of emotions

S Downes, S Trigg

2023-12-26

This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, h..

Emotions: History, Culture, Society

2023-06-23

Book Review: Mary C. Flannery, ed. Emotion and Medieval Textual Media

Stephanie Trigg

2020-09-14

Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent

Thomas Prendergast, Stephanie Trigg

2019-01-01

This book destabilises the customary disciplinary and epistemological oppositions between medieval studies and modern medievalism...

Afterword: Reading Historical Emotions

S Trigg

2018-01-01

This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple med..

"A good hater”: Writing about the Emotions with George Eliot and A. S. Byatt

S Trigg

2017-03-01

This essay takes as its starting point a reflection of a character in A.S. Byatt’s Still Life: ‘George Eliot, Stephanie thought, w..

Facing Up to the History of Emotions

S Downes, S Trigg

2017-02-01

This special issue of postmedieval brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, wi..

Affect Theory

S TRIGG

2017-01-01

Bluestone and the City: Writing an Emotional History

S TRIGG

2017-01-01

Facing Up to the History of Emotion. Special issue of Post-medieval: Medieval Cultural Studies

2017-01-01

The Biennial Chaucer Lecture: Chaucer's Silent Discourse

S Trigg

2017-01-01

This essay examines the trope of the "speaking face" in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. This trope draws on the familiar idea that..

Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London: Trauma and Emotion, Private and Public

S TRIGG

2016-11-01

This essay reads Samuel Pepys’ account of the 1666 fire in London as a test case for the study of ‘literary’ texts in the history ..

Embracing life in the face of death: Community singing with the elderly

JW Davidson

2016-01-01

Music has a long association with ritualised behaviours around grief, with the discipline of music therapy having devised speciali..

Music and Mourning: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

S Garrido, Jane Davidson

2016-01-01

© 2016 selection and editorial matter, Jane W. Davidson and Sandra Garrido; individual chapters, the contributors. While grief is ..

On music and mourning

J DAVIDSON, S Garrido

2016-01-01

The modern funeral and music for celebration: Part I

S Garrido, JW Davidson

2016-01-01

The past two hundred years have seen substantial changes in attitudes towards death in Western Christian cultures. Funeral music l..

The modern funeral and music for celebration: Part II

S Garrido, JW Davidson

2016-01-01

The music that people choose to play at funerals provides an interesting reflection of attitudes towards death and grief in societ..

Pre-modern Emotions. Special issue of Post-medieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies

2014-01-01