Daniela Hacke

Claudia Jarzebowski

Hannes Ziegler

By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary expertise, this study addresses the history of emotions in relation to cross-cultural movement, exchange, contact, and changing connections in the later medieval and early modern periods. All essays in this volume focus on the performance and negotiation of identity in situations of cultural contact, with particular emphasis on emotional practices. They cover a wide range of thematic and disciplinary areas and are organized around the primary sources on which they are based. The edited volume brings together two major areas in contemporary humanities: the study of how emotions were understood, expressed, and performed in shaping premodern transcultural relations, and the study of premodern cultural movements, contacts, exchanges, and understandings as emotionally charged encounters. In discussing these hitherto separated historiographies together, this study sheds new light on the role of emotions within Europe and amongst non-Europeans and Europeans between 1100 and 1800. The discussion of emotions in a wide range of sources including letters, images, material culture, travel writing, and literary accounts makes Matters of Engagement an invaluable source for both scholars and students concerned with the history of premodern emotions.

Emotions, Identity, and Cultural Contact in the Premodern World

Matters of Engagement

Claudia Jarzebowski untersucht den Zusammenhang von Kindheit und Emotion in der Ausgestaltung sozialer Beziehungen. Sie hinterfragt dabei anthropologische Vorannahmen darüber, was Kinder und Emotionen definiert, und stellt diese als revisionsbedürftig heraus. Eine zentrale Rolle spielen für Sie die Kategorien von Alter und Geschlecht sowie das christliche Versprechen der Gotteskindschaft als sicheres Geleit durch das Leben und darüber hinaus.

Claudia Jarzebowski

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