Matters of Engagement

By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary expertise, this study addresses the history of emotions in relation to cross-cultural movement, exchange, contact, and changing connections in the later medieval and early modern periods.

Autorentext

Daniela Hacke is an internationally renowned cultural historian and Full Professor of Early Modern History at Freie Universität Berlin.

Claudia Jarzebowski, partner investigator at the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions since its founding in 2011, researches and publishes on early modern global history and applies polycentric perspectives with a focus on agency, gender, and ethnic and religious/spiritual creolization. Her second book, Childhood and Emotion. Children in Early Modern Europe, was published (in German) in 2018.

Hannes Ziegler is Research Fellow in early modern history at the German Historical Institute London.

Inhalt

1. Matters of Engagement: Emotions, Identity, and Cultural Contact in the Premodern World. An Introduction Part 1: Letters 2. Bridging the Gap Techniques of Appresentation and Familiar(izing) Narratives in 18th Century Transmaritime Family Correspondence 3. An Emotional Company: Mobility, Community and Control in the Records of the English East-India Company Part 2: Images 4. Lust, Love and Curiosity: The Emotional Threads in the Dutch Encounter with an Exotic East 5. Santiago Matamoros/Mataindios: Adopting an Old World Battlefield Apparition as a New World Representation of Triumph 6. Riding the Juggernaut: Embodied Emotions and 'Indian' Ritual Processions through European Eyes, c. 1300-1600 Part 3: Materials 7 Robbing the Grave: Stealing the Remains of the Blessed John of Matha from the Church of S. Tommaso in Formis in 1655 8. Days of Wrath, Days of Friendships the Materiality of Anger and Love in Early Modern Denmark Part 4: Travel Writing 9. "A Country Where Reason Does Not Rule the Heart": Spanish Exuberance and the Traveller's Gaze 10. Sensible Distances: The Colonial Projections of Therese Huber and E.G. Wakefield 11. Animals and Emotions in the Early Modern World Part 5: Literary Accounts 12. Travel, Emotions and Timelessness: On Otherworldly Encounters in Medieval Narratives 13. "Always fleeing away": Emotion, Exile and Rest in the Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt 14. From Aaron to Othello: The Changing Emotional Register of Blackness in Shakespeare 15. Emotions, Identity and Propaganda: Ottoman Threat and Confessional Divide in Later Sixteenth-Century Germany