Oxford University Press, December 2021, 115$

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• The first book-length study on medieval rhetoric and the emotions
• Features long historical coverage from late antiquity to the cusp of early modernity
• A fresh approach to the history of rhetoric
• A new systematic framework for the history of emotions
• Brings the history of ideas, literary history, the history of pedagogy, and political and philosophical thought into conversation

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle’s rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
1. Before the Middle Ages: Emotion from Invention to Style
2. Christian and Literary Rhetorics of the Early Middle Ages: Emotion as the Property of Style
3. Emotion in the Rhetorical Arts and Literary Culture c. 1070-c.1400
4. Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Latin West: The Fortunes of the Path?
5. De regimine principum: Emotion, Persuasion, and Political Thought
6. Political Poetics and the Aristotelian Turn: Dante, Chaucer, and Hoccleve
7. Preaching, Emotion, and the Aristotelian Turn
Epilogue: Mixed Rhetorics

Paris, Champ Vallon, 2021
15,5 x 24 cm, 424 pages
ISBN 979-10-267-0978-7
26 €

Au XVIIIe siècle, Paris célébrait chaque événement heureux pour la Couronne. La Maison du Roi, le Bureau de la Ville et le Châtelet de Paris organisaient les réjouissances. Les manifestations de joie étaient donc contrôlées par les autorités qui y voyaient les signes tangibles d’une communion avec les sentiments du souverain. Pour autant, l’expérience de la joie publique n’était pas celle d’une obéissance passive. Les Parisiens s’appropriaient les réjouissances aussi bien en participant qu’en détournant certaines normes de réjouissances. Ils fabriquaient leur propre culture de l’approbation, empreinte d’une critique à peine voilée. Dès 1770, les gestes traditionnels des réjouissances furent progressivement détournés pour faire valoir un droit de se réjouir indépendamment de la Couronne.

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Cornell University Press, 2021

The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture.

Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions and Georges Bataille’s theory of the erotic as the conflict between desire and death, one that perversely builds a sense of community organized around a desire for death. The link between desire and death serves as an affirmation of living communities. Moore incorporates literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean—from Old French chansons de geste, such as the Song of Roland and La mort le roi Artu and romances such as Erec et Enide, Philomena, and Floire et Blancheflor; to Byzantine and ancient Greek novels; to Middle English travel narratives such as Mandeville’s Travels.

In her reading of the performance of grief as one of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite.

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Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities Requires Authentication	1
Chapter 1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages Requires Authentication	24
Chapter 2. Widows and the Romance of Grief Requires Authentication	59
Chapter 3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice Requires Authentication	90
Chapter 4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of Grief Requires Authentication	119
Conclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community Requires Authentication	156
Appendix 1: Selected Illuminations of Knights Being Grieved Requires Authentication	165
Appendix 2. Selected Illuminations of Lovers in Death Requires Authentication	167
Bibliography Requires Authentication	169
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