The history of emotions has emerged as one of the most prolific research topics in recent years. Building on our understanding of the cultural production of emotional expressions, we seek to explore how people in the Middle Ages learned about emotions, how they managed and manifested them. We aim to place special emphasis on the textual aspects of socialization towards specific emotions and their expressions across different contexts and communities of the medieval world.

We invite submissions on a wide range of topics related to learning about emotions and their expression in medieval society, including but not limited to: 

• Learning How to Feel in Medieval Society: recognizing, expressing, naming, and controlling emotions
• Variation of Practices Across Social Groups:
  • woman v. man
  • laypeople v. clergy
  • young v. old
  • rich v. poor
• Emotional Communities
• moving between different communities
• modes of socialization to feeling
• Loca Discendi: places and institutions: court, monastery, school and university.
• Emotions in Religious Experience
  • feelings about/towards God
  • emotions of sainthood
  • emotions as sins
• Medieval Science on Emotions
  • medical and philosophical discourse
  • moral and political science
  • theology
• How to Feel About Feeling
  • avoiding feelings
  • repentance and regret
  • learning about oneself
• Feeling (of) the Other: cultural encounters with queer, monstrous, unknown
• Expressing Emotions through Language: genres, modes, styles
• Universal, Cultural, and Individual in Medieval Emotions
  • communities of feeling
  • emotions in Latin v. emotions in vernacular
  • emotional dialects

Submission guidelines

Abstracts (200-400 words, excluding references) should be sent to the organizers Kalina Słaboszowska (k.slaboszowska@iaepan.edu.pl), Krzysztof Nowak (krzysztof.nowak@ijp.pan.pl)

before September 1, 2024

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: September 8, 2024
• Conference Dates: July 7-10, 2025

Organizers

• Kalina Słaboszowska (k.slaboszowska@iaepan.edu.pl), Institute of Archeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences 
• Krzysztof Nowak (krzysztof.nowak@ijp.pan.pl), Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences

Source : Calenda