Margaret Mullett - Managing Emotion in Byzantium: Passions, Affects and Imaginings

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguires ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of understanding how emotional communities work and where the ancients concepts of emotion differ from our own, and Byzantinists have begun to consider emotions other than sorrow. It is time to look at what is distinctive about Byzantine emotion.

This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, these papers address issues such as power, gender, rhetoric, or asceticism in Byzantine society through the lens of a single emotion or cluster of emotions. Contributors focus not only on the construction of emotions with respect to perception and cognition but also explore how emotions were communicated and exchanged across broad (multi)linguistic, political and social boundaries. Priorities are twofold: to arrive at an understanding of what the Byzantines thought of as emotions and to comprehend how theory shaped their appraisal of reality.

Managing Emotion in Byzantium will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in Byzantine perceptions of emotion, Byzantine culture and medieval perceptions of emotion.

Margaret Mullett is Honorary Professor in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and former Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.

Susan Ashbrook Harvey is Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion at Brown University.

Series editors: Margaret Mullett, Liz James and Jim Crow

This series brings the insights of art, archaeology and text to create a new cultural history of Byzantium. Studies in all three disciplines are invited, but especially those works which bring together the three disciplines to create something new. The series includes comparative works with neighbouring subjects such as classics, medieval studies, Islamic studies, Ottoman studies, Renaissance studies and Modern Greek studies, to allow Byzantine studies to be infused with new energy and to respond to its neighbours.

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Managing Emotion in Byzantium

Passions, Affects and Imaginings

Edited by Margaret Mullett and Susan Ashbrook Harvey

First published 2023

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Names: Mullett, Margaret, editor. | Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, editor.

Title: Managing emotion in Byzantium : passions, affects and imaginings / edited by Margaret Mullett and Susan Ashbrook Harvey.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 | Series: Studies in byzantine cultural history | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2022015736 (print) | LCCN 2022015737 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138561618 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032340470 (paperback) | ISBN 9780203710661 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: EmotionsByzantine Empire. | Byzantine EmpireCivilization.

Classification: LCC BF531 .M266 2023 (print) | LCC BF531 (ebook) | DDC 152.409495dc23/eng/20220613

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203710661

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Floris Bernard is currently Assistant Professor of Ancient and Medieval Greek at Ghent University. Previously he taught at Central European University in Budapest. He has worked on Byzantine poetry and epistolography, with a focus on education, humour, emotion and competition. He has published a book on the sociological contexts of eleventh-century poetry (2014), and, together with Chris Livanos, he has produced in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series (2018) the first English translation of John Mauropouss and Christopher Mitylenaioss poems. He has also assisted in setting up a database on Byzantine book epigrams (www.dbbe.ugent.be).

Annemarie Weyl Carr is Professor Emerita of Art History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Vice President of the Board of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia. She has published on Byzantine and post-Byzantine painting; on art and issues of cultural interchange in the eastern Mediterranean Levant, above all on Cyprus, and on medieval women artists. Recent books include Asinou Across Time: The Church and Frescoes of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus, edited with Andreas Nicolaides (2012) and Famagusta: Art and Architecture (2014). She is currently working on the cave church of St Marina in Qalamoun, Lebanon, and on a book on the icon of the Mother of God at Kykkos Monastery in Cyprus. She received the College Art Associations 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Andrew Crislip is Professor of History and Blake Chair in the History of Christianity at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He is author of numerous articles and books, including Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt (with David Brakke, 2015), Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity (2013), and From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity (2005). His current research interests include the writings and career of Shenoute, early Christianity and ancient medicine, and the history of emotions in late antiquity.

Maria Doerfler is Assistant Professor of Eastern Christianity in Yale Universitys Department of Religious Studies. Her work focuses on the interpretation of authoritative texts, law, philosophical writings and scripture in the second to sixth centuries CE, with particular emphasis on how contexts of personal or communal crisis shape exegesis. She is author of Jephthahs Daughter, Sarahs Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity