Performing Emotions in Early Europe

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Performing Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds / Philippa Maddern, Joanne McEwan, and Anne M. Scott xiii
Part I. Emotional Performativity in Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts
Emotion, Time, and Music at Cambrai Cathedral / Matthew S. Champion 3
\'Affecting glory from vices\': Negotiating Shame in Prostitution Texts, 1660–1750 / Emily Cock 27
Pageant, Spectacle, Dread, and Love in \'Piers Plowman\', Brueghel\'s \'Triumph of Death\', and the Good Samaritan Window of Bourges Cathedral / Anne M. Scott 51
Affected Bodies and Bodily Affect: Visualizing Emotion in Renaissance Plague Images / Louise Marshall 73
Part II. Social Performance
The \'Slime of Vice\' and the \'Passions of the Mind\': Emotional Histories in the Anglo-Norman World / Lindsay Diggelmann 107
Courting Nassau Affections: Performing Love in Orange-Nassau Marriage Negotiations / Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent 133
\'[D]id ringe at oure parish churche... for joye that the Queene of Skotts... was beheaded\': Public Performances of Early Modern English Emotions / Dolly MacKinnon 169
Part III. Religious Performance
Emotion, Place, and Memory at the Royal Abbey of St. Denis / Megan Cassidy-Welch 185
Boosting the Emotional Power of New Liturgy: The Hidden Sides of Things in Giotto\'s \'Crib at Greccio\' / Richard Read 201
Discursive Affect and Emotional Prescriptiveness: On the \'Man of Sorrows\' in Fourteenth-Century Italian Painting / Lachlan Turnbull 221
Martin Luther\'s Heart / Susan C. Karant-Nunn 243
Part IV. Recreating Emotional Performance
\'Laughing at Death\': Emotional Excess in \'The Duchess of Malfi\' in Performance / Steve Chinna 267
Index 287