Medieval Avatars

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Projecting Presence, Performing Emotions

Carla Maria Bino (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)

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English

Cambridge University Press
05 March 2026

Theatre Studies; Christian life & practice; Prayers & liturgical material; Psychology: emotions; Popular psychology

Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

This Element explores how medieval devotional and disciplinary practices acted as 'immersive technologies' for producing presence and configuring emotions. Through the comparative analysis of Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum and the Ordo ad Faciendum Disciplinam of the lay confraternity of Santo Stefano in Assisi, it investigates how the devout subject projected themselves into an imaginal, affective space, where memory, posture, and sensory experience converged to enable a participatory encounter with the divine. Drawing on the concept of the 'avatar' as a psychosomatic projection of the self within visionary and ritual practices, the Element traces how the 'theatre of the mind' redefined the relationship between interior vision, exterior action, and affective identity. By examining the dramaturgies of presence articulated within these memorial plays, this Element sheds light on the role of sensory discipline and emotional posture in shaping embodied devotional experience in the Latin Middle Ages.

By: Carla Maria Bino (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009610742
ISBN 10: 1009610740
Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Pages: 78
Publication Date: 05 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Avatars within the theatre of the mind; 2. Projecting presence: 'becoming' Magdalene; 3. Performing emotions: feeling like the mother epilogue; References.