This highly original book is both a study of emotional discourse in the Early Middle Ages and a contribution to the debates among historians and social scientis

An exploration of emotional life in the West, considering the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries.

This book considers the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints,

What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconogra

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