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The Kerry Stokes Schembart book: festivity, fashion and family in the late medieval Nuremberg Carnival

C Zika

2025-10-01

The richly illustrated Kerry Stokes Schembart book represents a very fine example of a genre that recorded the pre-Lenten carnival..

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

Compassion in Punishment: The Visual Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Depictions of Calvary

Charles Zika

2020-01-01

This volume honors the work of a scholar who has been active in the field of early modern history for over four decades. In that t..

Visualising Violence in Reformation Europe

Charles Zika

2020-01-01

Depictions of violence were ubiquitous in sixteenth-century Europe and drew freely on biblical and classical sources, as well as s..

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...

FEELING EXCLUSION: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

G Tarantino, C Zika

2019-01-01

Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusio..

Introduction: Feeling exclusion, generating exclusion

Charles Zika, Giovanni TARANTINO

2019-01-01

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents th..

Picturing Witchcraft in Late Seventeenth-Century Germany

Charles Zika

2019-01-01

The European Witch Hunt: From Mountain Credulity to Multiple Cultural Beliefs

Charles Zika

2019-01-01

The Visual Arts

Charles Zika, Patricia Simons

2019-01-01

Towards an Alien Community of Dancing Witches in Early Seventeenth-Century Europe

Charles Zika

2019-01-01

This paper explores descriptions and images of witches’ dances from the fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries, when these dance..

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..

Images of King Saul in Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Bibles: Continuities and Transformations of a Medieval Type

C Zika

2018-01-01

"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..

The Witch and Magician in European Art

C Zika

2017-01-31

The book also focuses on the more recent history of witchcraft and magic, from the Enlightenment to the present, exploring the ris..

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

Love: Art of Emotion 1400-1800

A Hesson, C Zika

2017-01-01

Featuring texts by leading scholars and curators, this lavishly illustrated book considers the capacity of art and objects to mate..

Prints and Illustrated Broadsheets

C Zika

2017-01-01

This book is the perfect starting point for any student wishing to study emotions in early modern Europe.

Recalibrating witchcraft through recycling and collage: The case of a late seventeenth-century anonymous print

C Zika

2017-01-01

Sebald Beham, Venus1539

C Zika

2017-01-01

Featuring texts by leading scholars and curators, this lavishly illustrated book considers the capacity of art and objects to mate..

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..

The Emotional Economy of Early Modern Pilgrimage Shrines: The Case of Mariazell

C Zika

2017-01-01

This article aligns with recent attempts to challenge the notion that pilgrimage shrines were unified centres of sacred power. It ..

The History of Emotions: A Brief Historiography

C Zika

2017-01-01

The Transformation of Sabbath Rituals by Jean Crépy and Laurent Bordelon: Redirecting Emotion through Ridicule

Charles Zika

2017-01-01

This chapter explores how witchcraft beliefs in the early eighteenth century often succumbed to growing scepticism and increasingl..

The Witch of Endor Before the Witch Trials

Charles Zika

2017-01-01

In the sixteenth century the biblical story of the Witch of Endor and her raising of the prophet Samuel for King Saul became one o..

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 ..

'Language in Her Eye': The Expressive Face of Criseyde/Cressida

Stephanie Trigg

2016-01-01

Faces that Speak: A Little Emotion Machine in the Novels of Jane Austen

S TRIGG

2015-03-17

This collection studies the function of emotions in group formations in Britain during a period that has attracted widespread scho..

Recasting Images of Witchcraft in the Later Seventeenth Century: The Witch of Endor as Ritual Magician

C Zika

2015-01-01

From the middle of the seventeenth century, images of the so-called witch of Endor, the female necromancer and diviner from the bi..

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

2014-01-01