Barbara H. Rosenwein and Riccardo Cristiani, What is the History of Emotions? What is History? series. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018, ix, 163 pp., 8 b/w photos

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-315
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Middle Ages

When Rüdiger Schnell went on a rampage and tried to destroy all previous research on the history of emotions (Haben Gefühle eine Geschichte, 2 vols., 2015), he ran into a lot of criticism, and scholars have since not picked up any of his suggestions because they appear to be primarily driven by anger, frustration, and irritation about what other scholars might have argued, without himself being in the limelight. Ironically, at the same time his study proves to be so deeply drenched in emotions that it becomes rather subjective. By contrast, in the present investigation, which pursues a very broad sweep and is not at all limited to the Middle Ages, without excluding it either, Barbara H. Rosenwein and Riccardo Cristiani take us on a whirlwind through the entire world of scientific, medical, historical, and mental-historical research on emotions, and they explicitly dismiss Schnell’s monograph altogether: “This makes no sense” (123). Bravo, and this should take care of it.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Rita Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Medieval Rhetoric ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rhetorical Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ars Poetica ◽  
The Middle Ages

What rhetorical traditions did the Middle Ages inherit from antiquity? The first part of this chapter outlines those traditions: a partial corpus of Ciceronian rhetoric; Horace’s Ars poetica; the Rhetoric of Aristotle which was not known until the thirteenth century. The second part considers how emotions figure across rhetorical doctrine in antiquity and the Middle Ages. The third part of the chapter considers the relation of this work to emotions studies and history of emotions more broadly. The fourth part of this Introduction considers the relation between theory and practice, and the sources from which we draw our understanding of medieval rhetoric and the emotions: from theoretical treatises, from rhetorical practice, and the intersections of the two.

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Making of the Medieval Middle East

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Tannous
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. This book argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called “the simple” in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history. What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, the book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East. The book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.

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