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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..

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

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.

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 History of Emotions: A Brief Historiography

C Zika

2017-01-01

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 ..

The Cruelty of Witchcraft: The Drawings of Jacques de Gheyn the Younger

C Zika

2016-01-01

The witchcraft images of the early seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Jacques de Gheyn II, depict the activities of witches as imag..

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..

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

2014-01-01