This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitu

Affective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, the

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

Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect the

Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford,