Description This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe.
About the Author Stephanie.
Such Objects can be harnessed to create, affirm, or express individual relationships, as, for example, in religious devotion and practice, or in the construction of cultural, communal, and national identities.
The chapters consider the ways in which Emotions such as despair, fear, grief, hope, love, and wonder become inscribed in and ascribed to these items, producing \'emotional objects\' of significance and agency.
Many of these have been preserved in international galleries, museums, and archives, while others have remained in their original locations, even as their contexts have changed over time.
Objects considered include books, letters, prosthetics, religious relics, shoes, stone, and textiles.
The collection draws together an international group of historians, art historians, curators, and literary scholars working on a variety of cultural, literary, visual, and material sources.
Feeling Things addresses the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for the analysis of Objects and Emotions in European history, with special attention to the need to track the shifting emotional valencies of Objects from the past to the present, and from one place and cultural context to another.
The historical intersections between materiality and emotions, however, have remained under-theorised, particularly with respect to artefacts that have continuing resonance over extended periods of time or across cultural and geographical space.
The subject of materiality has been of increasing significance in recent historical inquiry, alongside growing emphasis on the relationships between objects, emotions, and affect in archaeological and sociological research.
It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication.
Description This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe
