1st Edition
Managing Emotion in Byzantium Passions, Affects and Imaginings
1 Introduction
Margaret Mullett
2 Theorising Emotions: Methodological Tools for Research
Maria G. Xanthou
3 The Neighbour’s Unbearable Wellbeing: Phthonos/Envy from the Classical to the Modern Greek World
Martin Hinterberger
4 Compassion and Healing in Early Byzantium
Susan Wessel
5 Managing Affect through Rhetoric: The Case of Pity
Georgia Frank
6 Epithet and Emotion: Reflections on the Quality of Eleos in the Mother of God Eleousa
Annemarie Weyl Carr
7 Storge: Rethinking Gendered Emotion apropos of the Virgin Mary
Niki Tsironis
8 An Early Christian Understanding of Pride
Robin Darling Young
9 The Ascetic Construction of Emotions: Lupe and Akedia in the Works of Evagrios of Pontos
Andrew Crislip
10 Katepheia: From Heroic Failure to Christian Dejection
Aglae Pizzone
11 Emotional Communities and the Loss of an Individual: The Case of Grief
Maria Doerfler
12 Grief and Joy in Byzantine Art
Henry Maguire
13 Liturgical Emotion: Joy and Complexity in a Hymn of Romanos the Melodist for Easter
Derek Krueger
14 Apolausis: Feelings at the Juncture between Body and Mind
Alicia Walker
15 Poetry in Emotion: The Case of Anger
Floris Bernard
16 Power and Fear: Awe before the Emperor in Byzantium
Sergey A. Ivanov
Biography
Margaret Mullett, Honorary Professor, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh; former Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion, Brown University.
‘… an exceptional volume that will captivate and hold immense appeal to researchers, scholars, and students alike. The essays within the book are exemplary and thought-provoking contributions affording readers invaluable insights that enrich our comprehension of emotions in Byzantium’ - Porphyra, September 2023.
