ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Grant number: CE1101011 | Funding period: 2011 - 2021

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Abstract

Emotions change over time; yet the long-term causes and consequences of changing emotional experiences and expressions remain largely unknown. This Centre will revolutionize research in the Humanities and Creative Arts by initiating innovative research collaborations across many disciplines to account for long-term changes and continuities in emotional regimes in Europe 1100-1800. For the first time we will fully analyse the social, cultural and political effects of mass emotional events. Links with cultural industry partners in art, drama and music will enable reflective performance research on communication of emotions, and illuminate the Western cultural foundations of emotions in modern ..

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

Stephanie Trigg

2020-09-14

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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...

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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..

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"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..

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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..

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Affect Theory

S TRIGG

2017-01-01

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Bluestone and the City: Writing an Emotional History

S TRIGG

2017-01-01

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

2017-01-01

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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..

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

2014-01-01

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