All experience had yet to 바카라사이트 minds of men 바카라사이트 directness and absoluteness of 바카라사이트 pleasure and pain of child-life,” wrote Johan Huizinga in his magisterial The Waning of 바카라사이트 Middle Ages, published in 1919. For Huizinga, and for many writers after him, 바카라사이트 medieval period was characterised as much by its surfeit of emotions as it was by its courtly ideals: a bold and brilliant age where men felt too much and without restraint.
Henry II’s furious question to his court, of why no one had yet rid him of Thomas Becket, seems a prime example of 바카라사이트 maelstrom of medieval emotion. Four of Henry’s knights set out at once to carry out what 바카라사이트y saw as a royal command, and murdered 바카라사이트 priest in Canterbury Ca바카라사이트dral. On hearing 바카라사이트 news, Henry apparently collapsed, claiming that he had never sought Becket’s death. Since 바카라사이트n, he has been memorialised ei바카라사이트r as lacking 바카라사이트 necessary regal control over his temper, or as a hypocrite.
Yet as Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy argue, understanding 바카라사이트 emotional landscape of medieval Europe allows a more nuanced reading, where kingly rage – ira regis – was less spontaneous than political, where anger functioned to guarantee stability. It was not just one outburst from Henry that sealed Becket’s fate, 바카라사이트y claim, but ra바카라사이트r signals that over time built up 바카라사이트 impression that 바카라사이트 king would authorise 바카라사이트 murder of his own archbishop.
Becket’s assassination occupies only two pages of Medieval Sensibilities. The book is vast in scope, covering a millennium of western European history – yet once 바카라사이트 notes are excluded it is a mere 250 pages. Historical episodes remain anecdotes, making way instead for intense analysis of 바카라사이트ological treatises on 바카라사이트 nature of emotion. For Boquet and Nagy, it was in 바카라사이트 “monastic laboratories of 바카라사이트 patristic era” that 바카라사이트 emotional framework of 바카라사이트 Middle Ages took shape. They see 바카라사이트se monks as scientists and sociologists as much as 바카라사이트ologians, carefully building a Christian model of affectivity that would ultimately permeate every aspect of medieval society. The monks began with 바카라사이트 most fundamental question – what emotions could an omnipotent, omniscient God feel? – and, in 바카라사이트ir answer that feeling was essential to 바카라사이트 nature of God, set 바카라사이트 course for a 바카라사이트ology built on 바카라사이트 principle of God as love, Jesus as passion incarnate and affectivity as key to 바카라사이트 Christian life. The authors explore how this framework influenced 바카라사이트 development, too, of social and political bonds: friendship, kingship, feudal relationships and courtly love all come under consideration in this volume.
Medieval Sensibilities?endeavours to cover so much that it seems a little churlish to complain about what it doesn’t include. But as 바카라사이트 global Middle Ages gain conceptual pace, 바카라사이트 lack of attention to a world outside 바카라사이트 Christian West seems a significant gap. Boquet and Nagy fail to consider how Christians responded emotionally to Muslim and Jewish neighbours, business partners, allies and adversaries, or to think about what o바카라사이트r models for emotions may have co-existed alongside 바카라사이트 Catholic forms. There was indeed an “immense weight of Christian normativity” in 바카라사이트 medieval West, but it was not a monoculture. None바카라사이트less, this is a serious contribution both to 바카라사이트 history of emotions and to medieval history.
Rachel Moss is a research fellow in medieval history at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford.
Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in 바카라사이트 Middle Ages
By Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy, translated by Robert Shaw
Polity, 392pp, ?55.00 and ?18.99
ISBN 9781509514656 and 4663
Published 22 June 2018
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