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

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...

Emotions, exclusion and witchcraft imagery

C Zika

2019-01-01

One crucial factor behind the emergence of the modern notion of race, according to science philosopher Justin E. H. Smith, was the..

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..

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..

Violence, anger and dishonour in sixteenth-century broadsheets from the collection of Johann Jakob Wick

C Zika

2015-07-30

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