Feeling Medieval conference - invitation to attend online

The Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions University of St Andrews, Tuesday 31 May–Wednesday 1 June 2022 The Feeling Medieval Conference will be held in a hybrid format. It is free to attend online via Microsoft Teams, but please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feeling-medieval-the-inaugural-conference-of-ssme-tickets332609382617. You will receive a link 24 hours before the conference. All timings are UK time. Tuesday 31 May 2022 09:00–10:15: Keynote Lecture Finding Emotion in Medieval English Law – Wendy Turner (Augusta University) 10:15–10:30: Break 10:30–12:00: Sources for Medieval Emotions Angry Mobs: Crowds, Emotions, and Justice, ca. 1100 – Katharina Ulrike Mersch (Goethe-Universität) Emotions in the Letters of Fifteenth-Century English Letter Collections: The Cely and Paston Letters – Martina Häcker (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Simon of Tournai’s Blasphemy and the Fear of Godlessness: Getting Emotions from Accusations – Keagan Brewer (Macquarie University) 12:00–13:00: Lunch 13:00–14:30: Methodological Approaches to Emotions Study Sensing the Emotions: Mind and Body in Early Medieval Gaul – John Merrington (University of Oxford) Textometry as a Method for Analysing Medieval Emotions? The Case of Peter Damian (1007–1072/73) and His Combat Letters – Valérie Thon (Université de Paris & Université de Liège) Narratological and Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Emotions in Medieval Romance – Sonia García de Alba (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Emotional Regimes in Anglo-French Surgery, 1200–1400 – Fiona Knight (University of Cambridge) 14:30–14:45: Break 14:45–16:15: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Emotion Transient-yet-Reminiscent Emotions among Medieval Believers on Romanesque Sculpted Capitals – Hee Sook LeeNiinioja (Independent Scholar) The Text and the Cemetery: Seeking Expressions of Parental Love in Early Medieval England – Julie Kilbey (University of Birmingham) Moral Agency and Shame in Medieval Philosophical Psychology – Ritva Palmén (University of Helsinki) 16:15–16:30: Break 16:30–18:00: Approaching Emotions in Literature Repetition, Recollection and Spiritual Affect in the Wooing Group Texts – Anne Baden-Daintree (University of Bristol) ‘Spacious Joy’: Entering Joy in Medieval Literature – Lucie Kaempfer (University of Düsseldorf) Swa Micclum Geangsumod Þæt He Hine Sylfen Acwealde: Self-Killing and Emotion in Old English Literature – Kayla Kemhadjian (University of Leeds) She Never Wept: Guðrún’s Subversion of the Civilizing Hall in Atlakviða – Juliane Witte (Utrecht University) Wednesday 1 June 2022 09:00–10:15: Keynote Lecture ‘Lo, yonder he rit!’ Performance and Performativity in Middle English – Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford) 10:15–10:30: Break 10:30–12:00: Performing Emotions: Tears and Rituals of Sorrow The Politics of Grief in The History of William Marshal – Lili Scott Lintott (University of St Andrews/University of Glasgow) Tears, Weeping, and Sorrow in the Writings of Innocent III and His Curia (1198–1216) – Kirsty Day (Aalborg University) Guidelines for Grievers: Reconstructing a Medieval Protocol for Mourning – Ana del Campo (University of St Andrews) Grief and Grievance: Emotive Performativities in Hary’s Wallace – Kate Ash-Irisarri (University of Bristol) 12:00–13:00: Lunch 13:00–14:30: Emotions, Crusading, and Methodologies The Angry Crusader: Tancred’s Rage in the Sources – Francesca Petrizzo (University of Leeds) Fear and Joy in the Holy Land: The Franks of Jerusalem as an Emotional Community, 1099–1187 – Alan Murray (University of Leeds) The Function of Emotions in Geoffrey of Villehardouin’s Conqueste de Constantinople – Holly Dempster-Edwards (University of Liverpool) The Virgin Mary as a Zarte Mait? Authorial Judgments and the Emotionality of the Kronike von Pruzinlant – Patrick Eickman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 14:30–14:45: Break 14:45–16:15: Non-Christian Sources for Medieval Emotions Preaching Justice and Piety: Ibn al-Jawzi and the Emotive Turn in Medieval Islamic Political Thought – Han Hsien Liew (Arizona State University) Mining and Modelling Subjectivity in the Islamic West: The Emotional Transition of the Fourteenth Century – Laila M. Jreis Navarro (Universidad de Zaragoza) Weeping Barbarians: Emotion and Ethnocultural Identity in Cross-Border Confrontations in Medieval East Asia – Ya Zuo (University of California) 16:15–16:30: Break 16:30–18:00: Narrating Emotion ‘Heroic’ Empathy and Schadenfreude: Emotional Constituents of Justice in Middle High German Heroic Epic – Christopher Liebtag Miller (University of Notre Dame) ‘De los sos ojos tan fuertemente llorando’: Weeping in the Cantar de Mio Cid – Connie L. Scarborough (Texas Tech University) ‘Pensa Oggimai Per Te’: Emotion, Narrator, Reader in Dante’s Divina Commedia – Kathleen Verduin (Hope College) 18:00–18:10: Closing remarks The Feeling Medieval Conference will be held in a hybrid format. It is free to attend online via Microsoft Teams, but please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feeling-medieval-the-inaugural-conference-of-ssme-tickets332609382617. You will receive a link 24 hours before the conference. We are very grateful for the generous funding awarded by the Past & Present Society; Royal Historical Society; St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies; School of History, St Andrews; St Leonard’s Doctoral and Postgraduate College; Department of History, King’s College London. Image: Paris, BnF, MS fr. 2493, fo. 1r