Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291

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Stephen J. Spencer (Past and Present Fellow, Past and Present Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291

Stephen J. Spencer (Past and Present Fellow, Past and Present Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

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English

Oxford University Press
17 October 2019

History; European history; Medieval history; Social & cultural history; Crusades

Series: Emotions in History

Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays ED primarily fear, anger, and weeping ED were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal encyclicals, model sermons, chansons de geste, lyrics, and an array of theological and philosophical treatises. In addition to charting continuities and changes over time in the emotional landscape of crusading, this study identifies the underlying influences which shaped how medieval authors represented and used emotions; analyzes the passions crusade participants were expected to embrace and reject; and assesses whether the idea of crusading created a profoundly new set of attitudes towards emotions.

Emotions in a Crusading Context calls on scholars of the crusades to reject the traditional methodological approach of taking the emotional descriptions embedded within historical narratives as straightforward reflections of protagonists' lived feelings, and in so doing challenges the long historiographical tradition of reconstructing participants' beliefs and experiences from these texts. Within the history of emotions, Stephen J. Spencer demonstrates that, despite the ongoing drive to develop new methodologies for studying the emotional standards of the past, typified by experiments in 'neurohistory', the social constructionist (or cultural-historical) approach still has much to offer the historian of medieval emotions.

By: Stephen J. Spencer (Past and Present Fellow Past and Present Fellow Institute of Historical Research School of Advanced Study University of London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198833369
ISBN 10: 0198833369
Series: Emotions in History
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 17 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part I. Fear 1: To Fear Death or Trust in God? 2: The Multifaceted Nature of Fear Part II. Tears and Grief 3: The Lachrymose Crusader 4: Discourses of Tears and Sorrow Part III. Anger and its Management 5: Zealous Wrath for the Holy Land 6: Restraining Rage Conclusion

Stephen J. Spencer completed his doctorate at Queen Mary University of London, where he taught on the crusades, Islam and the West, knighthood and chivalry, and medieval mentalities. He is currently a Past and Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, conducting research on the memorialization of the Third Crusade in western Europe and the Latin East before 1300.

Reviews for Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291

This is an important book, which will undoubtedly be a key reference on its subject, and stimulate further research. * Linda M. Paterson, The English Historical Review * This book will undoubtedly be the go-to authority for anyone interested [in] the history of emotions in the context of the crusades, or indeed of the medieval historiography of the crusades in general. ... Additionally, it will be of significant value to scholars and students of the medieval history of emotions writ large.' * Beth C. Spacey, The Medieval Review * Spencer's study emerges as a bold, innovative, and much-needed addition to the canon of crusade historiography. * Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra, Comitatus *

Winner of Second Prize, Dionisius A. Agius Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean.
Winner of Winner, Ronnie Ellenblum Best First Book Award 2022, Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Second Prize, Dionisius A. Agius Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean.